Wikisource:Requested texts/1927

On January 1st, 2023, many published works will be entering the US public domain. Those would be all the works first published in 1927. This is an attempt to accumulate a body of likely-popular works so we can have people immediately working on things that interest them, on New Year's Day. (Wikipedia: w:Category:1927 books)

Non-fiction

• Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster (UK: Died 1970)
• The Tibetan Book of the Dead translated by Walter Evans-Wentz reprint of the 1927 edition Not needed: (transcription project)
• An Outline of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell (UK: Died 1970) (transcription project)
• The Public and Its Problems by John Dewey
• Social Reform vs. Birth Control by G. K. Chesterton
• The Outline of Sanity by G. K. Chesterton
• Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology by Norman Douglas (external scan)
• The Dancing Bees (1953 PD tl. of 1927 German original) by Karl Ritter von Frisch
• Sex and the Love Life by Author:William J. Fielding (transcription project)
• Voices of Revolt vols. I (Robespierre), II (Marat), III (Lasalle), IV (K. Liebknecht) (external scan)
• Materialism and Empirio-criticism by Lenin
• An Introduction to Old Norse, 1st ed., by E. V. Gordon (Canada: Died 1938) (external scan)

  The 2nd ed. was published in 1957, with revisions by another author, and is still under copyright.

To be Validated

• "Supernatural Horror in Literature", by H. P. Lovecraft

Novels

• Oil! by Upton Sinclair (transcription project)
• The Return of Don Quixote by G. K. Chesterton
• Terror Keep by Edgar Wallace
• Emily's Quest, by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• Red Love (w:Red Love (novel), by Author:Alexandra Kollontay (external scan)
• Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Patrol by Philip MacDonald
• Allan and the Ice-Gods by Henry Rider Haggard

To be Validated

• Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis (transcription project)
• The Mortover Grange Affair by J. S. Fletcher (transcription project)
• Mosquitoes by William Faulkner (transcription project)
• Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton (transcription project)

Validated

• The Tower Treasure, The House on the Cliff, and The Secret of the Old Mill (the first three Hardy Boys stories) by Franklin W. Dixon (pseudonym)
• The Big Four by Agatha Christie (UK: Died 1976)
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Short stories

• The African Saga by Blaise Cendrars, tr. by Margery Bianco (external scan)
• Rhapsody, by Dorothy Edwards
• The Secret of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton [1] [2]
• 26 Mystery Stories, Old and New, by Twenty and Six Authors, edited by Ernest Rhys and C. A. Dawson Scott (external scan)
• American Mystery Stories, edited by Carolyn Wells
• The Great Detective Stories; a Chronological Anthology, edited by Willard Huntington Wright (external scan)
• The World's One Hundred Best Short Stories, edited by Grant Overton (external scan)
• "The Tuesday Night Club" in The Royal Magazine by Agatha Christie

Validated

• Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway (transcription project)

Poetry

• Stuff and Nonsense and So On by Walter de la Mare (UK: Died 1956) (external scan)
• Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
• Poems For Workers, an Anthology edited by Manuel Gomez (transcription project)
• Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets by Countee Cullen (ed.) (transcription project)
• Pomes Penyeach by James Joyce
• God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse by James Weldon Johnson

To be Validated

• Tristram by Edwin Arlington Robinson (transcription project)

Validated

• Copper Sun by Countee Cullen
• Now We Are Six by A. A. Milne (UK: Died 1956)

Drama

• The Yale Shakespeare

  The Life and Death of King John, edited by Stanley T. Williams (transcription project)

  The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida, edited by Nathaniel Burton Paradise

• The King's Henchman, by Edna St. Vincent Millay (external scan)
• The Complete Works of John Webster, by John Webster, edited by F.L. Lucas (external scan)

To be Validated

• The Tragedy of Richard the Third, edited by Jack R. Crawford (transcription project)

Unsorted dump of "Public Domain Day" books

• Sir Percy Hits Back by Baroness Orczy