Wikisource:Requested texts/1929

On January 1st, 2025, many published works will be entering the US public domain. Those would be all the works first published in 1929. 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

• An Autobiography: or, The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Gandhi
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston by Marquis James (Pulitzer Winner, 1930)
• Magick in theory and practice by Aleister Crowley (external scan)
• The Vampire in Europe by Augustus Montague Summers
• The Munsell Book of Color ( and we can possibly use some later specification data in a journal to recalibrate the scans potentially.)
• A Modern Theory of Ethics: A study of the Relations of Ethics and Psychology by Olaf Stapledon
• A History of Costume by Carl Kohler, ed. Emma Von Sichart translated by Alexander K. Dallas (transcription project)
• The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (second trade edition)
• History and monuments of Ur by C. J. Gadd (source of File:Ur from the Air.jpg)
• Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do by E. B. White and James Thurber (transcription project)
• A Preface to Morals by Walter Lippman
• The Modern Temper by Joseph Wood Krutch
• Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture by Robert Staughton Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd (external scan)
• The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action by John Dewey
• Henry the Eighth by Francis Hackett (external scan)
• Believe it or not! by Robert Ripley (external scan)
• The Specialist by Chic Sale (external scan)
• The Tragic Era: the Revolution After Lincoln by Claude Gernade Bowers (external scan)
• The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny by Will Durant (external scan)

To be Validated

• The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge (first trade edition)
• A Room of One's Own (US ed.) by Virginia Woolf (transcription project)

Validated

• A Room of One's Own (UK ed.) by Virginia Woolf

Novels

• The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen (UK/Ireland: died 1973)
• The Roman Hat Mystery by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee (as Ellery Queen) (transcription project)
• The Maracot Deep by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Patient in Room 18 by Author:Mignon Good Eberhart (1929) (external scan)
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (transcription project)
• Borgia by Zona Gale (transcription project)
• Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov trans. by Natalie Duddington
• Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge (Pulitzer Winner, 1930) (transcription project)
• The Cradle of the Deep by Joan Lowell illustrated by Kurt Wiese [Fictional autobiography] (external scan)
• Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe (transcription project)
• The Man in the Queue by Author:Elizabeth MacKintosh aka Josephine Tey
• Graziella by Alphonse de Lamartine, translated by Ralph Wright (British, died ?)
• Planetoid 127 by Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1929) (British, died 1932)
• The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Louise Allingham
• Relics and Angels by Hamilton Basso
• The Dagwort Coombe Murder by Lynn Bock oclc: [1]
• The Box Office Murders by Freeman Wills Crofts oclc: [2]
• Magnificent Obsession by Lloyd C. Douglas, might have been serialized in Colliers, Vol. 84 [3]
• Hudson River Bracketed by Edith Wharton
• Gods' Man by Lynd Ward (1929) (transcription project)
• The Scarab Murder Case by S. S. Vine
• The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman - work started in 2023, see The Blacker the Berry, as copyright not renewed
• Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis
• The Bishop Murder Case by S. S. Vine
• Roper's Row by Warwick Deeping
• Peder Victorious by Ole Edvart Rølvaag, translated by Nora O. Solum (external scan)
• Mamba's Daughters by DuBose Heyward
• The Galaxy by Susan Ertz (external scan)
• Joseph and His Brethern by Harold Webber Freeman (external scan)
• Hunky by Thames Williamson
• Ultima Thule by Henry Handel Richardson
• The Magic Island by W. B. Seabrook (transcription project) or (start transcription)
• A Mirror for Witches by Esther Forbes, illustrated by Robert Gibbings (1928) (transcription project)
• Torn Tapestry by Mona Clifton Gordon (in copyright in NZ until 2028)

To be Validated

• Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional Reference to History by John Steinbeck (1929) (transcription project)
• Dark Hester by Anne Douglas Sedgwick (transcription project)

Validated

• All Quiet on the Western Front by Author:Erich Maria Remarque, translated by Author:Arthur Wesley Wheen, illustrated by Paul Wenck (German author, Died 1970)
• The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
• Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
• The Black Camel by Earl Derr Biggers

Short stories

• "Rats" by M. R. James
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page Rats. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "Again the Ringer" by Edgar Wallace
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page Again The Ringer. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• Joining Charles and Other Stories by Elizabeth Bowen (1929) (UK: died 1973)
• The Omnibus of Crime edited by Dorothy L. Sayers (transcription project)
• Hindu Fables for Little Children by Dhan Gopal Mukerji (Dutton, 1929) (external scan)

Poetry

• Cavender's House by Edwin Arlington Robinson (external scan)
• Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson (external scan)
• Modred by Edwin Arlington Robinson

To be Validated

• The Black Christ & Other Poems by Countee Cullen (transcription project)
• Selected Poems by Conrad Aiken (Pulitzer Winner, 1930) (transcription project)

Validated

• Further Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

Drama

• The Best Plays of 1928-29 ed. by Burns Mantle (external scan)
• Close Harmony (1929) by Dorothy Parker and Elmer Rice (external scan)
• The First Mrs. Fraser by John St. John Greer Ervine (external scan) (UK: Died 1971)
• Other Men's Wives by Walter C. Hackett (external scan)
• Dynamo by Eugene O'Neill (external scan)
• Strictly Dishonorable by Preston Sturges (external scan)

To be Validated

• The Green Pastures by Marc Connelly (transcription project) Pulitzer winner.
• Rope by Patrick Hamilton (transcription project) basis for the Hitchcock film Rope. (UK: Died 1962)
• Street Scene by Elmer Rice (transcription project) Pulitzer winner.

Validated

• Toad of Toad Hall by A. A. Milne adaptation of The Wind in the Willows; (UK: died 1956)

Film

• Seven Keys to Baldpate (personal copy available)