I meant to post this closer to New Year but got distracted. On January 1 we got a new raft of works entering the public domain. Some of them already were in the public domain… some of them were PD but being held hostage by copyright squatters. But now, all of these works are undeniably in the PD.
Books:
The Castle , by Franz Kafka
The Celestial City , by Baroness Orczy
Clouds of Witness , by Dorothy L. Sayers
The Death Ship , by B. Traven
Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man , by Marquis de Sade
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle , by Hugh MacDiarmid (poetry)
Enough Rope , by Dorothy Parker (poetry)
The Hounds of Spring , by Sylvia Thompson
The Hungry Tiger of Oz , by Ruth Plumly Thompson
The Incredulity of Father Brown , by G.K. Chesterton
The Land , by Vita Sackville-West (poetry)
The Land of Mist , by A. Conan Doyle
Lolly Willowes , by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Lud-in-the-Mist , by Hope Mirrlees
Mary , by Vladimir Nabokov
The Moon Maid , by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd , by Agatha Christie
My Mortal Enemy , by Willa Cather
Notes On Democracy, by H.L. Mencken
Number 17 , by Joseph Jefferson Farjeon
Payment Deferred , by C.S. Forester
The Plough and the Stars , by Sean O’Casey (play)
The Plumed Serpent , by D.H. Lawrence
Ralph 124C 41+, by Hugo Gernsback
Seven Pillars of Wisdom , by T.E. Lawrence
Show Boat , by Edna Ferber
Smoky the Cowhorse , by Will James
Soldiers’ Pay , by William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises , by Ernest Hemingway
Topper , by Thorne Smith
The Torrents of Spring , by Ernest Hemingway
The Treasure of the Lake , by H. Rider Haggard
The Weary Blues , by Langston Hughes (poetry)
Winne-the-Pooh , by A.A. Milne
The World of William Clissold , by H.G. Wells
Short Stories:
“The Adjuster”, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier”, by A. Conan Doyle
“The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane”, by A. Conan Doyle
“The Adventure of the Retired Colourman”, by A. Conan Doyle
“The Adventure of the Three Gables”, by A. Conan Doyle
“He”, by H.P. Lovecraft
“L’Aviateur”, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Mulliner’s Buck-U-Uppo”, by P.G. Wodehouse
“A Nursery Tale”, by Vladimir Nabokov
“The Outsider,” by H.P. Lovecraft
“The Rich Boy”, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The Rocking-Horse Winner”, by D.H. Lawrence
“The Truth About George”, by P.G. Wodehouse
“Useless Beauty”, by Guy de Maupassant
“The Virgin and the Gipsy”, by D.H. Lawrence
Film:
Battling Butler (Buster Keaton)
Beau Geste (Ronald Colman)
The Bells (Barrymore & Karloff)
The Black Pirate (Douglas Fairbanks)
Don Juan (John Barrymore)
Faust (F.W. Murnau dir.)
For Heaven’s Sake (Harold Lloyd)
The General (Buster Keaton)
The Great Gatsby (Warner Baxter)
Kid Boots (Eddie Cantor & Clara Bow)
Nana (Jean Renoir dir.)
The Scarlet Letter (Lillian Gish)
The Sea Beast (John Barrymore)
The Son of the Sheik (Valentino)
So’s Your Old Man (W.C. Fields)
Tartuffe (F.W. Murnau dir.)
The Volga Boatman (Cecil B. DeMille dir.)
What Price Glory? (Edmund Lowe & Victor McLaglen)
45 Minutes From Hollywood (Laurel & Hardy, pre-partnership)
Songs:
“Baby Face” (Davis/Akst)
“The Birth of the Blues” (DeSylva/Brown/Henderson)
“Black Bottom Stomp” (Morton)
“The Blue Room” (Hart/Rodgers)
“Blue Skies” (Berlin)
“Bye Bye Blackbird” (Dixon/Henderson)
“Deed I Do” (Hirsch/Rose)
“The Desert Song” (Harbach/Hammerstein/Romberg)
“East St. Louis Toodle-oo” (Miley/Ellington)
“The Girl Friend” (Hart/Rodgers)
“Hesitation Blues” (Smythe/Middleton/Gillham)
“Hey Gypsy, Play Gypsy” (Kalman/Grey/Foley)
“If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight” (Creamer/Johnson)
“In a Little Spanish Town” (Lewis/Young/Wayne)
“It All Depends On You” (DeSylva/Brown/Henderson)
“Mountain Greenery” (Hart/Rodgers)
“Muskrat Ramble” (Ory)
“One Alone” (Harbach/Hammerstein/Romberg)
“Someone To Watch Over Me” (Gershwin/Gershwin)
“Sunny Disposish” (Gershwin/Charig)
“Tonight You Belong To Me” (Rose/David)
“Valencia” (Boyer/Charles/Grey/Padilla)
“When the Red Red Robin (Comes Bob Bob Bobbin’ Along)” (Woods)
“Where’d You Get Those Eyes?” (Donaldson)
Classical Music:
Ballet mecanique , by George Antheil
Concerto for Harpsichord , by Manuel de Falla
Pater Noster , by Igor Stravinsky
Piano Concerto , by Aaron Copland
Piano Concerto No. 1 , by Bela Bartok
Tapiola , by Jean Sibelius
Turandot , by Giacomo Puccini (opera)
Theme and Variation on Music from a Garage , by Ferde Grofe
Musicals:
The Desert Song (Romberg)
The Girl Friend (Rodgers & Hart)
Oh, Kay! (The Gershwins & P.G. Wodehouse)
Art:
The Basket of Bread (Dali)
The Cello Player (Dickinson)
The Difficult Crossing (Magritte)
Self-Portrait in a Velvet Dress (Kahlo)
Spoon Woman (Giacometti)
Yellow Odalisque (Matisse)