FREE BOOKS | These Books are Entering the Public Domain in 2024 

the yellow wallpaper is such a good public domain book - its a thriller about a young woman who gets confined to her room with hysteria, and starts seeing things in the wallpaper also if you like public domain movies, attack the wasp woman is hilarious

I am from the UK but I found your presentation of these books very interesting. Two at least are classics; ' Lady Chatterley's Lover, ' and ' Orlando. ' We have charity shops here and they can be bought second hand easily, and the good thing is you can buy almost any books in print in charity shops as people here offload them when a person dies, moves away or discards them as unwanted presents.

Yep, Evelyn Waugh is pronounced Eve-Lynn rather than Ev-Lynn. I pronounce mine the same as him, and it confuses people!

ALDOUS HUXLEY wrote "Brave New World" so you can be sure "Point Counterpoint" is FAB! Also, The Gutenberg Project has EVERYTHING, downloadable, for free -- so nobody needs to spend a red cent, a brass farthing or a plug nickel

All books from this era are all fascinating.....

These are excellent recommendations - thank you so much for putting this together, and promoting the Public Domain!

In the EU, as a general rule, books (and other pieces of art) go into the public domain 70 years after the death of the artist/author. There are exceptions to this, for instance the Great Ormond Street Hospital has the copyright on Peter Pan, as the author JM Barrie gifted it to them while he was alive.

Huxley's famous quote? There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Thank you for putting out this research!

Hello Jenny! I think I’m going to learn a thing or two from you -exciting! Great video. 😊

Clicked for the knitted sweater, stayed for the good info.

When will the Railway Series books enter the public domain?

My gosh! I remember "Millions of Cats" from grade school! I got my Brother and his family a copy for Christmas because they took in the local crazy cat lady's three cats when she bailed and they all had kittens! They have placed all the kitties (including two with me) and some of the grown cats but they still had a few adult cats of their own around the house!

The Ethical and Political Works of Motse by Yi Pao Mei.

My mom (several times) would read Millions of Cats to me when I was a child (long ago, in the 1950's) ... later I read it to my children and was kind of creeped out by the ending. Funny, it didn't strike me as strange when I was a child. 🐱🐈🐈‍⬛

My kids & I used to know 'Millions of Cats' off by heart, almost!

If you included the year the author died, that'd be helpful. UK copyright is 70 years after the author's death, so Virginia wolf has been public domain for over a decade here, for example.

Does something entering the public domain mean that books and films about the characters can be released and profited of? For example, could people who have written fanfiction of these books now legally publish them with original character names profit off of it like an original book?

What’s Public Domain?

W E B du Bois is actually pronounced bois, not like the French bwaah, btw.