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.
• 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
• Index:The Autobiography Of Calvin Coolidge.djvu request undeletion

Novels

• The Black Camel by Earl Derr Biggers
• The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen (UK/Ireland: died 1973)
• The Roman Hat Mystery by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee (as Ellery Queen)
• 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
• Cimarron by Edna Ferber
• Borgia by Zona Gale
• Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov trans. by Natalie Duddington
• The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett
• A Farewell to Arms (1929)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2025 due to Renewal R177406 by Ernest Hemingway
• The Man in the Queue by Author:Elizabeth MacKintosh aka Josephine Tey
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Author:Erich Maria Remarque (1929), translated by Author:Arthur Wesley Wheen (1929)(British, died 1971)
• Graziella by Alphonse de Lamartine, translated by Ralph Wright (British, died ?)
• Planetoid 127 by Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1929) (British, died 1932)

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)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2025 due to Renewal R187649 (UK: died 1973)

Poetry

• The Black Christ by Countee Cullen
• Further Poems by Emily Dickinson
• Cavender's House by Edwin Arlington Robinson
• Collected Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson
• Modred by Edwin Arlington Robinson

Drama

• The First Mrs. Fraser by John St. John Greer Ervine (external scan)
• Other Men's Wives by Walter C. Hackett (external scan)
• Rope by Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton This play served as the basis for the Hitchcock film.
• Dynamo by Eugene O'Neill (external scan)
• Street Scene by Elmer Rice Pulitzer Prize winner.
• The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw

Film

• Seven Keys to Baldpate (personal copy available)