Wikisource:Requested texts/1924

On January 1st, 2020, many published works entered the US public domain. Those were all the works first published in 1924. This is an attempt to accumulate a body of works so we can have a big bang of this new material available on New Year's Day.

Fiction

 * Richard Connell (US; died 1949)
 * "The Most Dangerous Game" (1924)
 * E. M. Forster (UK; died 1970)
 * A Passage to India
 * Edited by Stanley Rypins (died 1971)
 * Three old English prose texts in Ms. Cotton Vitellius A XV
 * Edith Wharton (US; died 1937)
 * Old New York (1924)
 * vol. 1 False Dawn
 * vol. 2 The Old Maid
 * vol. 3 The Spark
 * vol. 4 New Year's Day
 * Percival Christopher Wren (UK; died 1941)
 * Beau Geste (1924 UK / 1925 US)
 * H. G. Wells
 * The Dream

Non-fiction

 * Johan Huizinga (Netherlands; died 1945)
 * Erasmus and the Age of Reformation, transl. by Frederik Hopman
 * Harrison R. Hunt (US; died 1978)
 * A Laboratory Manual of the Anatomy of the Rat
 * Gilbert Murray (Australia; died 1957)
 * The Rise of the Greek Epic, 3rd ed.
 * Lowell Thomas (US; died 1981)
 * With Lawrence in Arabia
 * Conway Whittle Sams (US; died 1935)
 * The Conquest of Virginia

Series

 * Portal:The Yale Shakespeare
 * Two Gentlemen of Verona, edited by Karl Young
 * The Tragedy of Cymbeline, edited by Samuel B. Hemingway
 * Loeb Classical Library
 * Aristophanes: Volume I: The Acharnians. The Knights. The Clouds. The Wasps.
 * Aristophanes: Volume II: The Peace. The Birds. The Frogs.
 * Aristophanes: Volume III: The Lysistrata. The Thesmophoriasusae. The Ecclesiazusae. The Plutus.
 * Weird Tales/1924

Literature
1924 in literature (many of the works noted there have no PD English translation; the below is a selected few)
 * Agatha Christie (Died 1976)
 * The Man in the Brown Suit
 * Poirot Investigates
 * UK edition; US edition has three extra stories and wasn't published until 1925
 * Hugh Lofting
 * Doctor Dolittle's Circus
 * Porridge Poetry
 * Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
 * We (1924 US, first publication in English), trans. by Author:Gregory Zilboorg (died 1959 (US))

Poetry
1924 in poetry
 * When We Were Very Young, by A. A. Milne
 * The Sleeping Beauty, by Edith Sitwell
 * The Cat and the Moon, and Certain Poems by W. B. Yeats

Drama

 * W. B. Yeats
 * Plays and Controversies (1924)
 * Plays in Prose and Verse (Revised Edition) (1924)

Non-fiction
1924 in non-fiction
 * Agnes Mure Mackenzie (died 1955.)
 * The Women in Shakespeare's Plays
 * Mark Twain
 * The Autobiography of Mark Twain

1924 in philosophy

1924 in science
 * Article by Edwin Hubble in The New York Times on November 23, 1924 that the Andromeda "nebula" was in fact a galaxy.


 * Google Scholar search for papers published in 1924 sorted by number of citations found. Many have Wikipedia articles about the thesis they introduced.

To be validated

 * Edwin Marion Cox (UK; died 1942)
 * The Poems of Sappho
 * Johan Huizinga (Netherlands; died 1945)
 * The Waning of the Middle Ages, transl. into English in 1924
 * Edgar Rice Burroughs
 * Tarzan and the Ant Men
 * Gertrude Chandler Warner (US; died 1979)
 * The Box-Car Children, ill. by Dorothy Lake Gregory
 * William Shakespeare
 * The Tragedy of Coriolanus, edited by Tucker Brooke
 * W. E. B. Du Bois (US; died 1963)
 * The Gift of Black Folk ✅