05-18-2013, 02:25 PM | #16 |
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A Christmas Carol
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I would like to add:
Don Quixote (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ The Thousand Nights and a Night (version of Richard Burton - 10 vols.) |
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05-18-2013, 03:43 PM | #18 |
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Any collection of short stories by Saki (H R R Munro).
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I believe the same can be said of some of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Some of them are PD in England but not yet in the U.S. for some reason. Or at least that was the case a few yrs back.
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05-18-2013, 05:36 PM | #20 |
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Yes, that's true. Some of the short stories are still in copyright in the US because of the the complicated history of copyright laws in the US, and the last one won't be out of copyright until 1st January 2023.
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05-18-2013, 07:51 PM | #21 |
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Conan Doyle died in 1930. Even with Disney copyright laws, how could anything he wrote still be in copyright after 2005?
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05-18-2013, 08:16 PM | #22 |
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Any early sci-fi/horror from Verne, Wells, and Burroughs to Poe and Lovecraft.
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05-18-2013, 08:21 PM | #23 |
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I like questioning the premise. So here's my comment:
Human taste is so various that, even among people who read a lot, there is no such thing as a no-miss book. P.S. However -- Ivanhoe. Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 05-18-2013 at 08:25 PM. |
05-19-2013, 04:50 AM | #24 |
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Because some short stories were first published in the US after 1922, and were properly renewed. They therefore have a 95-year copyright term. The last such short story was published in 1927. 1927+95 = 2022, so it'll come out of copyright on 1st January 2023 (since publication is deemed to happen on the last day of the year of publication)
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I'm not sure I'd classify them as "absolute no-miss", but I did enjoy many of the stories by H. Rider Haggard. "King Solomon's Mines", "She", "Allan Quatermain" etc.
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I forgot to mention:
"The Great Gatsby" "Random Harvest" Both are in the public domain in Project Gutenberg Australia. |
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I enjoyed The Virginian by Owen Wister.
White Fang and The Call of the Wild by Jack London were favorites when I was young. |
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Kipling - The Jungle books, Kim, his poetry...
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