Wikisource:Requested texts/1925
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On January 1st, 2021, many published works entered the US public domain. Those were all the works first published in 1925. 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.
Non-fiction
[edit]- The Devil's Coach Horses, by J. R. R. Tolkien (Died 1973) (transcription project)
- Mein Kampf, only in the German - would need dedicated(!) translators to parse it into English
- The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton (transcription project)
- Leninism: Introduction to the Study of Leninism, Grigory Zinoviev
- In Russian: (external scan)
- The Nun: Her Character and Work, Etienne Lelong (transcription project) (1914 edition)
- A Century of Excavation in Palestine, Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister[1] (Died 1950)
- The Bolshevik Myth by Alexander Berkman
- Later Days by W. H. Davies
- William Cobbett by G. K. Chesterton
Novels
[edit]- The Professor's House by Willa Cather (transcription project)
- An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (transcription project) (transcription project)
- The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein
- The Mother's Recompense by Edith Wharton (external scan)
- Romance of the Three Kingdoms, first English translation (only a small portion
- v1: Can't find scan Hathi (no full scans, 1959 edition)
- v2: (transcription project)
- Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley (Died 1963)
- The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham (Died 1965) (User:Lemuritus pledges to finish this work in January!)
- Sam in the Suburbs (US edition; UK title "Sam the Sudden"), by P. G. Wodehouse (Died 1975) UK ed: (external scan) US ed: (external scan)
- Broken Ties and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore
Childrens
[edit]- The Lost King of Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson (Died 1976)
- Bluebeard, Cinderella, and other tales, by Charles Perrault, retold by Lloyd E. Smith. (Little blue book, no. 836) (Smith died 1972?)
Short stories
[edit]- Hay Fever (Coward) and Fallen Angels, by Noel Coward (Died 1973)
- Carry On, Jeeves, by P. G. Wodehouse (Died 1975) (transcription project)
Poetry
[edit]- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Tolkien), edited by J. R. R. Tolkien (died 1973) (transcription project)
- Sweet Georgia Brown (song), lyrics by Kenneth Casey (died 1965), tune composed by Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard
- A Poet's Alphabet by W. H. Davies
- Come Away, Death by Moeran
- To be Validated
- The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot (died 1965) published in Poems, 1909–1925 (transcription project)
Drama
[edit]- The Yale Shakespeare
- The Life of King Henry the Eighth, edited by John Milton Berdan & Tucker Brooke (transcription project)
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre, edited by Alfred R. Bellinger (died 1978) (transcription project)
- Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill
Periodicals
[edit]- The New Yorker
- The Review of English Studies (volume 1 only) (contains The Devil's Coach Horses, by J. R. R. Tolkien) (transcription project)
- (external scan) (Hathi, but not full view)
To be Validated
[edit]- Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos (died 1970) (transcription project)
- The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie (Died 1976)
- Homo-Sexual Life, William J. Fielding (transcription project)
- The Eumenides (The Furies) of Aeschylus, translated by Gilbert Murray (died 1957)
- Love's Labour's Lost, edited by Wilbur L. Cross & Tucker Brooke
Validated (Complete)
[edit]- Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (died 1951) (transcription project)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 1925 edition: (transcription project)
- 1953 reprint: (transcription project)
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (died 1981) (transcription project)
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (transcription project)
- Fairy Tales for Workers' Children by Hermynia Zur Mühlen (died 1951), trans. by Ida Dailies, illus. by Lydia Gibson (transcription project)