Wikisource:Requested texts/1930

On January 1st, 2026, many published works will be entering the US public domain. Those would be all the works first published in 1930. 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

• Observations on the Intellectual Culture of the Caribou Eskimos by Knud Rasmussen (1930), including Index:Observations on the Intellectual Culture of the Caribou Eskimos.djvu
• The Problemist Fairy Chess Supplement (a.k.a. w:Fairy Chess Review)
• Moscow unmasked; a record of nine years' work and observation in soviet Russia by Joseph Douillet (translated by Albert William King) (start transcription)
• Masaryk of Czechoslovakia: a life of Tomas G. Masaryk, first President of the Czechoslovak Republic by Donald A. Lowrie (start transcription)
• The works of Liudprand of Cremona Liuprand of Cremona, trans. by Frederick Adam Wright (1869-1946) (start transcription)
• Papal encyclical Casti connubii
• 1066 and All That by Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman (British : died 1968).
• Africa: Its Place in Modern History, by W.E.B. Du Bois (1930) (external scan)

Novels

• Cimarron by Edna Ferber (start transcription) or (transcription project)
• Emil and the Detectives, by Emil Erich Kästner (1899-1974), translated by May Massee (start transcription)
• Giant's Bread, by Agatha Christie under the pen-name of Mary Westmacott
• Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie - first novel featuring Miss Marple. (transcription project)
• Last and First Men, by William Olaf Stapledon
• Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes (Knopf) (transcription project)
• Swallows and Amazons, by Author:Arthur Ransome. The first edition without illustrations only. The first edition with illustrations is 1931.(UK: Died 1967)
• The Tale of the Two Lovers, by Æneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pius II.) translated by Flora Lucy Margaret Grierson (1899–1966) (start transcription)
• The Master of Hestviken by Sigrid Undset, translated by Arthur G. Chater
• The Twilight of Magic by Hugh Lofting (transcription project)
• Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes, Pulitzer winner (start transcription)
• Mirthful Haven by Booth Tarkington (start transcription)
• The Castle by Franz Kafka, translated by Willa Muir and Edwin Muir (Scottish: Died 1959)
• Plume of the Arawas by Frank Acheson (transcription project)
• Mhudi: An Epic of South African Native Life a Hundred Years Ago by Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (first novel written by Black South African) (external scan)
• Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh (British : Died 1966) (start transcription)
• The Secret of the Old Clock by Mildred Benson (d 2002) (as Author:Carolyn Keene) - problematic for non-US editors as under copyright elsewhere (transcription project)

To be Validated

• The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett (transcription project)

Short stories

• "The Hills of the Dead" by Robert E. Howard
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Hills of the Dead and its subpages. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim. From Weird Tales August 1930 - scans will be available.
• "The Moon of Skulls" by Robert E. Howard
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Moon of Skulls and its subpages. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim. From Weird Tales June and July 1930 - scans will be available.
• "Kings of the Night" by Robert E. Howard
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page Kings of the Night and its subpages. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim. From Weird Tales November 1930 - scans will be available.
• "The End of the Story (Smith)" by Clark Ashton Smith
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The End of the Story. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim. From Weird Tales - scans will be available.
• "The Last Incantation" by Clark Ashton Smith
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Last Incantation. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim. From Weird Tales - scans will be available.
• "Sadastor" by Clark Ashton Smith
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page Sadastor. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim. From Weird Tales - scans will be available.
• "The Phantoms of the Fire" by Clark Ashton Smith
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Phantoms of the Fire. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim. From Weird Tales - scans will be available.
• "The Uncharted Isle" by Clark Ashton Smith
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Uncharted Isle. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim. From Weird Tales - scans will be available.
• Tales of Grotesque and Curious trans. Glenn W. Shaw (translations of Tobacco and the devil.--The nose.--The handkerchief.--Rashōmon.--Lice.--The spider's thread.--The wine worm.--The badger.--The ball.--The pipe.--Mōri Sensei.)
• Fun with Dick and Jane by William S. Gray, William H. Elson, and Zerna Sharp (unclear if this is one work; several 1930s renewals for Elson basic readers pre-primer, primer, etc.)
• A Rose for Emily by William Cuthbert Faulkner
• New Zealand Short Stories (O. N. Gillespie (ed)) - under copyright in NZ until 2044 as it includes work by Monty Holcroft.

Poetry

• Kowhai Gold edited by Quentin Pope - significant NZ poetry collection. Will be under copyright in NZ until at least 2051 as it includes work by Alison Grant.
• Collected Poems by Author:Robert Frost (Pulitzer winner) (transcription project)
• The Mountain Beast by Stella Dorothea Gibbons

To be Validated

• "Recapture" by H. P. Lovecraft
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page Recapture. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim. Actually a poem. Scan backed copy now available. Page:Weird Tales Vol 15, no 5 (1930-05).djvu/119
• "A Song Out of Midian" by Robert E. Howard
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page A Song Out of Midian. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim. Scan backed at - Page:Weird Tales Vol 15, no 4 (1930-04).djvu/75
• "Black Chant Imperial" by Robert E. Howard
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page Black Chant Imperial. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim. Scan backed at - Page:Weird Tales Vol 16, no 3 (1930-09).djvu/120

Drama

• Alcestis, translated by Richard Aldington (UK, d.1962) (external scan)
• Alison's House by Susan Glaspell (start transcription) [Pulitzer]
• Cranach Press Hamlet, illustrated by Edward Gordon Craig (start transcription)
• Death Takes a Holiday translated and rewritten by Walter Ferris, based on the Italian La morte in vacanza by Alberto Casella (start transcription)
• How's Your Health? by Booth Tarkington (external scan)
• Siegfried by Jean Giraudoux, English transl. by Philip Carr (start transcription) (orig. French 1928)

To be Validated

• The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw (transcription project)

Others

• The Tale of Little Pig Robinson by Author:Beatrix Potter (transcription project)