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There are thousands of works from 1923 that are available as of January 1st, 2019, including music, movies, art, screenplays, choreography, and literary works. Here is a list of 20 notable books now in the public domain.
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For the first time in over 20 years, copyrights on works published have expired in the United States. This means works published in 1923 that were protected by U.S. copyright have now entered the public domain, and these works can now be used and modified by anyone.
There are thousands of works from 1923 that are available as of January 1st, 2019, including music, movies, art, screenplays, choreography, and literary works. Here is a list of 20 notable books now in the public domain:
- “A Lost Lady” by Willa Cather
- “Saint Francis of Assisi” by G.K. Chesterton
- “The Murder on the Links” by Agatha Christie
- “The World Crisis” by Winston Churchill
- “A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House” by Jessie Conrad
- “Tulips and Chimneys” by e.e. Cummings
- “Our American Adventure” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- “New Hampshire” by Robert Frost, which includes the poems Nothing Gold Can Stay and Fire and Ice
- “The Ego and the Id” by Sigmund Freud
- “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran
- “Antic Hay” by Aldous Huxley
- “Kangaroo” by D.H. Laurence
- “Caste and Outcast” by Dhan Gopal Mukerji
- “Whose Body?” by Dorothy L. Sayers
- “Cane” by Jean Toomer
- “A Son at the Front” by Edith Warton
- “Men Like Gods” by H.G. Wells
- “The Great American Novel” by William Carlos Williams
- “The Inimitable Jeeves” by P.G. Wodehouse
- “Jacob’s Room” by Virginia Woolf
