Arthur Machen now Public Domain in Europe

Katsunami · 01-02-2018, 08:39 PM

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.

DiapDealer · 01-02-2018, 09:41 PM

Quite a few of his works were made available in our own Life+70 Mobileread library.

Abzeronow · 01-02-2018, 11:43 PM

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.

GrannyGrump · 01-03-2018, 07:54 AM

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.

Pulpmeister · 01-03-2018, 08:47 AM

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.

ekbell · 01-03-2018, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump

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.

fadedpage.com has Dr. Dolittle books and so does gutenburg.ca

dwig · 01-03-2018, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Abzeronow

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Baroness Orczy also became public domain so Europe can savor all of the Scarlet Pimpernel.

and also her The Old Man in the Corner stories.

GrannyGrump · 01-03-2018, 10:05 PM

@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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Katsunami Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,111 Karma: 34000001 Join Date: Mar 2008 Device: KPW1, KA1	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.

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DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 27,546 Karma: 193191846 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	Quite a few of his works were made available in our own Life+70 Mobileread library.

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Abzeronow Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 1011094 Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: Massachusetts Device: Kindle Fire HE 8	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.

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GrannyGrump Obsessively Dedicated... Posts: 3,200 Karma: 34977896 Join Date: May 2011 Location: JAPAN (US expatriate) Device: Sony PRS-T2, ADE on PC	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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Pulpmeister Wizard Posts: 2,502 Karma: 28893796 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Perth Western Australia Device: kindle	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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GrannyGrump Obsessively Dedicated... Posts: 3,200 Karma: 34977896 Join Date: May 2011 Location: JAPAN (US expatriate) Device: Sony PRS-T2, ADE on PC	@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!