Wikisource:Requested texts/1934
On January 1st, 2030, many published works will be entering the US public domain. Those would be all the works first published in 1934. 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]- "Interview with Joseph Stalin" by H. G. Wells in The New Statesman special supplement for 27 October 1934
- The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page 1934 Interview with Joseph Stalin. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
- Visit Estonia — the cheapest and most interesting country in Europe by Central Office for Tourism in Estonia Internet Archive
- The Greek Herbal of Dioscorides, with the Englishing by John Goodyer, edited by Robert T. Gunther; this is the first published English translation of De materia medica (external scan)
- The World as I See It by Author:Albert Einstein; there is a deleted partially proofread Index:The World as I See It.pdf, which can be renewed on this date.
Novels
[edit]- Burmese Days, by George Orwell
- Grey Granite by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
- The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page Grey Granite. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
- Murder among the nudists by Peter Hunt (pseudonym) (renewal R280805)
- Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout (first Nero Wolfe novel) (renewal R298963)
- Rumbin Galleries by Booth Tarkington
- Little Orvie by Booth Tarkington
- A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh (in copyright in NZ until 2033)
- Spur of Morning by Alan Mulgan (PD-NZ)
- Where the Apples Redden by Mary Scott (as Marten Stuart)
- Children of the Poor by John A. Lee (in copyright in NZ until 2033)
- Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston
- Author:Upton Beall Sinclair: Epic Answers: How to End Poverty in California, The Epic Plan for California, The Lie Factory Starts, and The Book of Love
Short stories
[edit]- "The Weaver in the Vault" by Clark Ashton Smith
- The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Weaver in the Vault. 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 January issue - scan will be available.
- "The Woman of the Wood" by Abraham Merritt
- The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Woman of the Wood. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim. Originally published 1926 so out of copyright since 2021.
- New Tales of Horror by Eminent Authors by John Gawsworth
- Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers (UK; died 1996)
- includes some previously published short stories
- "Sidewise in Time" by Murray Leinster - one of the earliest alternate history stories - in Astounding June 1934