Project GutenbergJan 1, 2025

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

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Show threadProject GutenbergJan 1, 2025
Arthur Wesley Wheen, the first English translation of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Agatha Christie, Seven Dials Mystery
Robert Graves, Good-bye to All That
E. B. White & James Thurber, Is Sex Necessary? Or, Why You Feel the Way You Do
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (only the original German version, Briefe an einen jungen Dichter)
Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals
Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee), The Roman Hat Mystery
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Show threadAlex makes autism funJan 1, 2025
@gutenberg_org curious that E. B. White of Strunk&White's Zombie Grammar Plague worked on a sex guide. Not sure I should trust anything he has to say on the subject.
Show threadderptronJan 1, 2025
@WizardOfDocs @gutenberg_org I don't know, based on the wikipedia article I'd say the book sounds like a lost gem in the field of psychology. It's definitely made my reading list.
Show threadAlex makes autism funJan 1, 2025
@crazyeddie @gutenberg_org I am at least curious, and that's reassuring
Show threadM.S. Bellows, Jr.Jan 1, 2025
@WizardOfDocs @crazyeddie @gutenberg_org Don't forget he also wrote Charlotte's Web.
Show threadAlex makes autism fun

@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

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Show threadAlex makes autism funJan 1, 2025
@msbellows @crazyeddie @gutenberg_org then again I'm sure Charlotte's Web contributed to my furry awakening, so *shrug*
Show threadM.S. Bellows, Jr.Jan 1, 2025
@WizardOfDocs @crazyeddie @gutenberg_org And it's a *satirical* sex guide with made-up experts that they didn't actually expect to be published but that ended up launching their careers, so...
Show threadAlex makes autism funJan 1, 2025
@msbellows @crazyeddie @gutenberg_org I also struggle to imagine him doing satire, though the Elements of Style is surprisingly good self-parody
Show threadM.S. Bellows, Jr.Jan 1, 2025
@WizardOfDocs @crazyeddie @gutenberg_org I'm still somewhat of a prescriptivist myself, so....