Wikisource:Requested texts/1930

On January 1st, 2026, many published works will be entering the US public domain. Those would be all the works first published in 1930. 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 Problemist Fairy Chess Supplement (a.k.a. w:Fairy Chess Review)
• Moscow unmasked; a record of nine years' work and observation in soviet Russia by Joseph Douillet (translated by Albert William King)

Novels

• Emil and the Detectives, by Emil Erich Kästner (1899-1974), translated by May Massee
• Giant's Bread, by Agatha Christie under the pen-name of Mary Westmacott
• Last and First Men, by William Olaf Stapledon
• The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
• Swallows and Amazons, by Author:Arthur Ransome. The first edition without illustrations only. The first edition with illustrations is 1931.(UK: Died 1967)
• The Tale of the Two Lovers, by Æneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pius II.) translated by Flora Lucy Margaret Grierson (1899–1966)(external scan)
• The Master of Hestviken by Sigrid Undset, translated by Arthur G. Chater

Short stories

• "The Hills of the Dead" by Robert E. Howard
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Hills of the Dead and its subpages. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "The Moon of Skulls" by Robert E. Howard
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Moon of Skulls and its subpages. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "Kings of the Night" by Robert E. Howard
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page Kings of the Night and its subpages. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "The End of the Story" by Clark Ashton Smith
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The End of the Story. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "The Last Incantation" by Clark Ashton Smith
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Last Incantation. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "Sadastor" by Clark Ashton Smith
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page Sadastor. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "The Phantoms of the Fire" by Clark Ashton Smith
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Phantoms of the Fire. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "The Uncharted Isle" by Clark Ashton Smith
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Uncharted Isle. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "Recapture" by H. P. Lovecraft
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page Recapture. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• Tales of Grotesque and Curious trans. Glenn W. Shaw (translations of Tobacco and the devil.--The nose.--The handkerchief.--Rashōmon.--Lice.--The spider's thread.--The wine worm.--The badger.--The ball.--The pipe.--Mōri Sensei.)

Poetry

• "A Song Out of Midian" by Robert E. Howard
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page A Song Out of Midian. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "Black Chant Imperial" by Robert E. Howard
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page Black Chant Imperial. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.

Drama

• Cranach Press Hamlet, illustrated by Edward Gordon Craig (external scan)
• Death Takes a Holiday translated and rewritten by Walter Ferris, based on the Italian La morte in vacanza by Alberto Casella (external scan)
• The Green Pastures by Marcus Connelly [Pulitzer]
• Rope's End by Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton (external scan) This play served as the basis for the Hitchcock film Rope.
• Siegfried by Jean Giraudoux, English transl. by Philip Carr (external scan) (orig. French 1928)