01-02-2018, 08:39 PM | #1 |
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Arthur Machen now Public Domain in Europe
For people who did not know: Arthur Machen is now completely in Public Domain in Europe, which enables us to get all of his works at Delphi Classics.
It's one of the few I was waiting for (along with HG Wells). There are individual stories around on the internet such as at Feedbooks, but if you're in Europe you officially weren't allowed to download them before today. |
01-02-2018, 09:41 PM | #2 |
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Quite a few of his works were made available in our own Life+70 Mobileread library.
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01-02-2018, 11:43 PM | #3 |
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Willa Cather is also now public domain in Europe, just in time for the 100th anniversary of her masterpiece My Ántonia.(which was published in 1918) That is one of the newly-made available books in the Mobileread library.
Baroness Orczy also became public domain so Europe can savor all of the Scarlet Pimpernel. |
01-03-2018, 07:54 AM | #4 |
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Oh, and Hugh Lofting -- the Dr. Dolittle children's books. I might take a try at creating ebooks for the MR Library, if I can find digitized texts.
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01-03-2018, 08:47 AM | #5 |
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Project Gutenberg Australia has many of Machen's books, also Lofting's.
Australia was a Life +50 country until recently, and when it went life+70 there was no retrospective action on works already in the Australian public domain. The upshot was that works by all authors who died before 1955 remained in the Australian public domain. eg E Phillips Oppenheim (d. 1946). Machen's very short story "The Bowmen" gave rise to the myth of the Angel of Mons. |
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@ekbell --- glad you mentioned FadedPage --- they are a wonderful resource. I ran across them more than a year ago when they had fewer than 300 books. They are over 3600 now.
Thank you for the reminders! |
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