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    Here are the books that just entered the public domain.

    Emily Temple
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    January 6, 2020, 12:00pm

    Attention remixers, fan fiction writers, and indie publishers: as you may know, on January 1st, 2020, a whole slew of books—those copyrighted in 1924—entered the public domain in the United States.  You can see the full catalogue of copyright entries from 1924 and before here, but I’ve pulled a few highlights from the literary side of things.

    E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
    Edna Ferber, So Big (which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1925)
    Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (the first volume of his Parade’s End tetralogy)
    Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot and Tarzan and the Ant Men
    Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit
    Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks (the English translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter)
    Edith Wharton, Old New York (a collection of four novellas)
    Katherine Mansfield, Poems
    Eugene O’Neill, Desire Under the Elms (a play)
    Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (the English translation by Gregory Zilboorg)
    Hugh Lofting, Doctor Dolittle’s Circus
    Edith Wharton, The Old Maid
    H. G. Wells, The Dream
    A. A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
    W. E. B. Du Bois, The Gift of Black Folk

    Is a We/So Big mashup too much to hope for?

    A. A. Milne Agatha Christie E. M. Forster Edgar Rice Burroughs Edith Wharton Edna Ferber Eugene O’Neill Ford Madox Ford H.G. Wells Hugh Lofting Katherine Mansfield public domain public domain day 2020 Thomas Mann W. E. B. Du Bois Yevgeny Zamyatin

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