HAPPY PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY!
Books which will enter the US public domain:
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest and The Maltese Falcon (as serialized in Black Mask magazine)
John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold (Steinbeck's first novel)
Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica
Oliver La Farge, Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
Patrick Hamilton, Rope
@msbellows @crazyeddie @gutenberg_org which was one of my childhood favorite books, and proves more than anything he did with Strunk that he did actually know how to string a sentence together
not sure that's a point for *or* against his ability to write a helpful sex guide
@Okanogen not sure whether you're being sarcastic with me or at me.
But I agree with you that Strunk and White care more about writing prettily as a class marker than about writing clearly, and they do both badly.
@Okanogen oh, I would love for the Elements of Style to fade into obscurity, and for E. B. White to be known only as the author of Charlotte's Web.
And who knows? With young people writing more now than the vast majority of their forebears, maybe we're well on our way to a more tolerant literary world.
Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture by Robert and Helen Lynd
Omnibus of Crime by Dorothy L. Sayers
Secrets of Magic by Harry Blackstone
Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop
Midstream by Helen Keller
Further Poems by Emily Dickinson
Paying Guests by E.F. Benson
The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
Harriet Hume by Rebecca West
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
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The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham
Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis
High Falcon and Other Poems by Léonie Adams
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen
Hindu Fables for Little Children by Dhan Gopal Mukerji.
Daughter of Democracy by Emma Willard
The Man Within by Graham Greene
Professor Challenger by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Patient in Room 18 by Mignon G. Eberhart
Full list is available at
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2025/
Update: see what's entering the public domain on January 1, 2026! Tweet January 1, 2025 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1929 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1924! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle Directors, Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries are different.[1] On January 1, 2025, thousands of copyrighted works from 1929 will enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1924.
How soon before we can find some of these on Project Gutenberg? Should I head over now to take a look?
There are several of interest to me in that long list, but the 12 yr old part of me that loved all things magik really wants to read the Blackstone book.
@MyWoolyMastadon It varies quite a lot, depending either on a solo volunteer (PG) or several volunteers at @DProofreaders
On the other hand, some of them are already available at @FadedPage (DPC) and then their Project Manager will be able to post at PG pretty soon.
@nitinkhanna Yes, that's true, see below:
E. C. Segar, Popeye (in “Gobs of Work” from the Thimble Theatre comic strip)
Hergé (Georges Remi), Tintin (in “Les Aventures de Tintin” from the magazine Le Petit Vingtième)
Except in Canada, where copyright was extended from death +50 to death +70 in 2022… Canada, where public domain day has been cancelled for 20 years, where children will grow to adulthood without seeing a single new public domain work. 😞
Copyright in Canada was death+50… before the change I could make, promote, profit from derivative works at that point even for foreign creators… but only within Canada and other countries with the same terms.
Hey @gutenberg_org,
Just curious, what did the first decade of PG look like?
Was there a BBS, or was it limited to stuff on the #ARPANet and university networks?
The Wikipedia article had a few details, but not a lot before the 90s.
@gutenberg_org Yay! 🎉
Any chance each item could be prefixed with a hyphen or separated by a blank line in these posts?
The items all run together and can be difficult to determine where one ends and another begins.
Project Gutenberg
Alex makes autism fun
derptron
M.S. Bellows, Jr.
Rachamim Farnworth
okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin
Elz de Korte
Stuck Here
Kale 
Nitin Khanna
michael
Garrett Wollman
nounoursfaisdeschoses
中山
Tim Chase
Joe
Dr Neenah Estrella-Luna
Space Hobo
David Mitchell 
DGPreston
R.L. Dane 
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