Wikisource:Requested texts/1925

On January 1st, 2021, many published works entered the US public domain. Those were all the works first published in 1925. 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

 * The Devil's Coach Horses, by J. R. R. Tolkien (Died 1973)
 * Mein Kampf, only in the German - would need dedicated(!) translators to parse it into English
 * The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton
 * Leninism: Introduction to the Study of Leninism, Grigory Zinoviev
 * In Russian:
 * The Nun: Her Character and Work, Etienne Lelong (1914 edition)
 * A Century of Excavation in Palestine, Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister (Died 1950)
 * The Bolshevik Myth by Alexander Berkman
 * Later Days by W. H. Davies
 * William Cobbett by G. K. Chesterton

Novels

 * The Professor's House by Willa Cather
 * An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
 * The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein
 * The Mother's Recompense by Edith Wharton
 * Romance of the Three Kingdoms, first English translation (only a small portion
 * v1:  Hathi (no full scans, 1959 edition)
 * v2:
 * Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley (Died 1963)
 * Index:Those Barren_Leaves - Huxley - 1925.djvu
 * The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham (Died 1965) (User:Lemuritus pledges to finish this work in January!)
 * Index:The Painted Veil - Maugham - 1925.djvu
 * Sam in the Suburbs (US edition; UK title "Sam the Sudden"), by P. G. Wodehouse (Died 1975) UK ed:  US ed:
 * Broken Ties and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

Childrens

 * The Lost King of Oz, by Ruth Plumly Thompson (Died 1976)
 * Bluebeard, Cinderella, and other tales, by Charles Perrault, retold by Lloyd E. Smith. (Little blue book, no. 836) (Smith died 1972?)

Short stories

 * Hay Fever (Coward) and Fallen Angels, by Noel Coward (Died 1973)
 * Carry On, Jeeves, by P. G. Wodehouse (Died 1975)

Poetry

 * Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Tolkien), edited by J. R. R. Tolkien (died 1973)
 * Sweet Georgia Brown (song), lyrics by Kenneth Casey (died 1965), tune composed by Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard
 * A Poet's Alphabet by W. H. Davies
 * Come Away, Death by Moeran


 * To be Validated
 * The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot (died 1965) published in Poems, 1909–1925

Drama

 * The Yale Shakespeare
 * The Life of King Henry the Eighth, edited by John Milton Berdan & Tucker Brooke
 * Pericles, Prince of Tyre, edited by Alfred R. Bellinger (died 1978)
 * Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill

Periodicals

 * The New Yorker
 * The Review of English Studies (volume 1 only) (contains The Devil's Coach Horses, by J. R. R. Tolkien)
 * (Hathi, but not full view)

To be Validated

 * Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos (died 1970)
 * The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie (Died 1976)
 * Homo-Sexual Life, William J. Fielding
 * The Eumenides (The Furies) of Aeschylus, translated by Gilbert Murray (died 1957)
 * Love's Labour's Lost, edited by Wilbur L. Cross & Tucker Brooke

Validated (Complete)

 * Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (died 1951)
 * The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * 1925 edition:
 * 1953 reprint:
 * Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos (died 1981)
 * Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
 * Fairy Tales for Workers' Children by Hermynia Zur Mühlen (died 1951), trans. by Ida Dailies, illus. by Lydia Gibson