Our top pick of those whose works on 1st January 2020 enter the public domain in many countries around the world.
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Our top pick of those whose works on 1st January 2020 enter the public domain in many countries around the world.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/01/public-domain-in-2020
A Christmas classic about two children who get lost in the blinding snow, by the Austrian writer Adalbert Stifter, beloved by W. G. Sebald, W. H. Auden, Hannah Arendt, and Thomas Mann.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rock-crystal-adalbert-stifter
John Milton’s Paradise Lost has been many things to many people — a Christian epic, a comment on the English Civil War, the epitome of poetic ambiguity — but it is first of all a pleasure to read. Drawing on sources as varied as Wordsworth, Hitchcock, and Conan Doyle, author Philip Pullman considers the sonic beauty and expert storytelling of Milton's masterpiece and the influence it has had on his own work.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-sound-and-the-story-exploring-the-world-of-paradise-lost
Hand-coloured cards engraved by Sidney Hall representing the constellations, from Aquarius to Ursa Major.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/uranias-mirror-or-a-view-of-the-heavens
A book of Greenlandic Inuit folktales collected by the legendary explorer and anthropologist Knud Rasmussen.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/eskimo-folktales
Images of the Aurora Borealis through the history of art.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/aurora-borealis-in-art
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A satirical alphabet book mocking Cubists, Futurists, and other masters of modern art.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-cubies-abc-1913
Of the various forms the nascent art of sound recording took in the late nineteenth century perhaps none was so aesthetically alluring as that invented by Margaret Watts Hughes. Rob Mullender-Ross explores the significance of the Welsh singer’s ingenious set of images, which until recently were thought to be lost.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-a-voice-margaret-watts-hughes-and-the-eidophone
Various visions of Yggdrasil, the sacred World Tree, watered by the Well of Urðr, whose roots connect to the nine worlds of Norse mythology.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/yggdrasil-the-sacred-ash-tree-of-norse-mythology