Wikisource:Requested texts/1931

On January 1st, 2027, many published works will be entering the US public domain. Those would be all the works first published in 1931. 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

• Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce Volume 1: Principles of Philosophy
• The necessity of politics; an essay on the representative idea in the church and modern Europe by Author:Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) (external scan)
• Constitution of atomic nuclei and radioactivity by George Gamow
• Proust by Samuel Beckett
• The Proverb by Archer Taylor
• The European Caravan ed. by Samuel Putnam.

Novels

• The Murder on the Burrows by E. C. R. Lorac
• Berlin Alexanderplatz, by Alfred Döblin translated by Eugene Jolas (German author died 1957)
• The Glass Key by Samuel Dashiell Hammett
• The Loving Spirit by Daphne du Maurier

Short stories

• The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James by M. R. James
• "The Experiment" by M. R. James
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Experiment. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "The Footfalls Within" by Robert E. Howard
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Footfalls Within. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "The Gods of Bal-Sagoth" by Robert E. Howard
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Gods of Bal-Sagoth. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "The Black Stone" by Robert E. Howard
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Black Stone. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "The Dark Man" by Robert E. Howard
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Dark Man. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "Old Garfield's Heart" by Robert E. Howard
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page Old Garfield's Heart. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros" by Clark Ashton Smith
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Tale of Satampra Zeiros. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "The Resurrection of the Rattlesnake" by Clark Ashton Smith
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Resurrection of the Rattlesnake. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "The Immeasurable Horror" by Clark Ashton Smith
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Immeasurable Horror. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "A Voyage to Sfanomoë" by Clark Ashton Smith
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page A Voyage to Sfanomoë. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "The Venus of Azombeii" by Clark Ashton Smith
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Venus of Azombeii. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "A Rendezvous in Averoigne" by Clark Ashton Smith
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page A Rendezvous in Averoigne. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• "The Necromantic Tale" by Clark Ashton Smith
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Necromantic Tale. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• Switch On The Light (1931), anthology collected by Christine Campbell Thomson (external scan)

Poetry

• "The Song of a Mad Minstrel" by Robert E. Howard
  • The (unverified) text of this work is available in the deleted revisions of the page The Song of a Mad Minstrel. Request undeletion at WS:PD or ask any admin to do it if a scan has not become available in the interim.
• Death and Taxes (1931)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2027 due to Renewal R235946 by Dorothy Parker

Drama

• Autumn Crocus, by Dodie Smith (external scan) (UK: died 1990)
• The Gay Adventure, by Walter C. Hackett
• Green Grow the Lilacs, by Lynn Riggs (external scan) (basis for Oklahoma!)
• The Man Who Pays The Piper, by Gladys Bronwyn Stern (UK: died 1973)
• Mourning Becomes Electra, by Eugene O'Neill
• Mule Bone, by Langston Hughes & Zora Neale Hurston (transcription project)
• Post-Mortem, by Noël Coward (external scan) (UK: died 1973)