20th Century works

132 works from the 20th century by 55 authors. Modernism and after: works whose copyrights have expired in the United States.

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Philosophy · 12

Ecce Homo — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888 · trans. Anthony M. Ludovici
Up from Slavery — Booker T. Washington, 1901
The Varieties of Religious Experience — William James, 1902
The Souls of Black Folk — W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903
De Profundis — Oscar Wilde, 1905
What Is Man? — Mark Twain, 1906
Creative Evolution — Henri Bergson, 1907 · trans. Arthur Mitchell
Pragmatism — William James, 1907
Anarchism and Other Essays — Emma Goldman, 1910
Democracy and Education — John Dewey, 1916
The Analysis of Mind — Bertrand Russell, 1921
The Everlasting Man — G.K. Chesterton, 1925

Fiction · 99

Billy Budd — Herman Melville, 1891
Lord Jim — Joseph Conrad, 1900
Sister Carrie — Theodore Dreiser, 1900
Kim — Rudyard Kipling, 1901
The Octopus — Frank Norris, 1901
The Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902
The Wings of the Dove — Henry James, 1902
Typhoon — Joseph Conrad, 1902
The Ambassadors — Henry James, 1903
The Call of the Wild — Jack London, 1903
The Way of All Flesh — Samuel Butler, 1903
Nostromo — Joseph Conrad, 1904
The Golden Bowl — Henry James, 1904
The Sea-Wolf — Jack London, 1904
Kipps — H. G. Wells, 1905
The Return of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1905
The Jungle — Upton Sinclair, 1906
White Fang — Jack London, 1906
The Secret Agent — Joseph Conrad, 1907
A Room with a View — E.M. Forster, 1908
The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame, 1908
Martin Eden — Jack London, 1909
Tono-Bungay — H.G. Wells, 1909
The History of Mr Polly — H.G. Wells, 1910
Ethan Frome — Edith Wharton, 1911
The Quest of the Silver Fleece — W. E. B. Du Bois, 1911
The Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1911
Under Western Eyes — Joseph Conrad, 1911
The Reef — Edith Wharton, 1912
Chance — Joseph Conrad, 1913
In Search of Lost Time — Marcel Proust, 1913 · trans. C.K. Scott Moncrieff
The Custom of the Country — Edith Wharton, 1913
The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka, 1915 · trans. David Wyllie
The Song of the Lark — Willa Cather, 1915
The Valley of Fear — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1915
Victory — Joseph Conrad, 1915
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James Joyce, 1916
Growth of the Soil — Knut Hamsun, 1917 · trans. W. W. Worster
Summer — Edith Wharton, 1917
My Ántonia — Willa Cather, 1918
The Magnificent Ambersons — Booth Tarkington, 1918
My Man Jeeves — P.G. Wodehouse, 1919
Winesburg, Ohio — Sherwood Anderson, 1919
Flappers and Philosophers — F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920
Main Street — Sinclair Lewis, 1920
Poor White — Sherwood Anderson, 1920
The Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton, 1920
The Lost Girl — D.H. Lawrence, 1920
The Mysterious Affair at Styles — Agatha Christie, 1920
This Side of Paradise — F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920
Women in Love — D.H. Lawrence, 1920
Crome Yellow — Aldous Huxley, 1921
The Triumph of the Egg — Sherwood Anderson, 1921
Aaron's Rod — D.H. Lawrence, 1922
Babbitt — Sinclair Lewis, 1922
Jacob's Room — Virginia Woolf, 1922
Tales of the Jazz Age — F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922
The Beautiful and Damned — F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922
The Forsyte Saga — John Galsworthy, 1922
The Glimpses of the Moon — Edith Wharton, 1922
The Secret Adversary — Agatha Christie, 1922
A Lost Lady — Willa Cather, 1923
A Son at the Front — Edith Wharton, 1923
Antic Hay — Aldous Huxley, 1923
Kangaroo — D.H. Lawrence, 1923
Leave It to Psmith — P.G. Wodehouse, 1923
The Inimitable Jeeves — P.G. Wodehouse, 1923
The Murder on the Links — Agatha Christie, 1923
A Passage to India — E.M. Forster, 1924
In Our Time — Ernest Hemingway, 1924
The Boy in the Bush — D.H. Lawrence, 1924
The Man in the Brown Suit — Agatha Christie, 1924
An American Tragedy — Theodore Dreiser, 1925
Arrowsmith — Sinclair Lewis, 1925
Carry On, Jeeves — P.G. Wodehouse, 1925
Mrs Dalloway — Virginia Woolf, 1925
The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
The Mother's Recompense — Edith Wharton, 1925
The Professor's House — Willa Cather, 1925
The Secret of Chimneys — Agatha Christie, 1925
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd — Agatha Christie, 1926
The Sun Also Rises — Ernest Hemingway, 1926
Death Comes for the Archbishop — Willa Cather, 1927
Elmer Gantry — Sinclair Lewis, 1927
Men Without Women — Ernest Hemingway, 1927
A Farewell to Arms — Ernest Hemingway, 1929
The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner, 1929
The Maltese Falcon — Dashiell Hammett, 1930
A Little Princess — Frances Hodgson Burnett
All the Sad Young Men — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ann Veronica — H. G. Wells
As I Lay Dying — William Faulkner
His Last Bow — Arthur Conan Doyle
Howards End — E. M. Forster
Just So Stories — Rudyard Kipling
Orlando — Virginia Woolf
The First Men in the Moon — H. G. Wells
The Lost World — Arthur Conan Doyle
To the Lighthouse — Virginia Woolf

Drama · 12

Caesar and Cleopatra — George Bernard Shaw, 1901
Three Sisters — Anton Chekhov, 1901 · trans. Julius West
A Dream Play — August Strindberg, 1902 · trans. Edwin Björkman
Man and Superman — George Bernard Shaw, 1903
The Cherry Orchard — Anton Chekhov, 1904 · trans. Julius West
Major Barbara — George Bernard Shaw, 1905
The Doctor's Dilemma — George Bernard Shaw, 1906
The Ghost Sonata — August Strindberg, 1907 · trans. Edwin Björkman
Androcles and the Lion — George Bernard Shaw, 1912
Pygmalion — George Bernard Shaw, 1913
Heartbreak House — George Bernard Shaw, 1919
Back to Methuselah — George Bernard Shaw

Poetry · 6

Gitanjali — Rabindranath Tagore, 1912
Responsibilities — W.B. Yeats, 1914
The Wild Swans at Coole — W.B. Yeats, 1919
Poems — T.S. Eliot, 1920
Michael Robartes and the Dancer — W.B. Yeats, 1921
The Waste Land — T.S. Eliot, 1922

Nonfiction · 2

Eminent Victorians — Lytton Strachey, 1918
Prejudices: First Series — H.L. Mencken, 1919

Essays · 1

Darkwater — W. E. B. Du Bois, 1920

Authors · 55

Agatha Christie · Aldous Huxley · Anton Chekhov · Arthur Conan Doyle · August Strindberg · Bertrand Russell · Booker T. Washington · Booth Tarkington · D.H. Lawrence · Dashiell Hammett · E. M. Forster · E.M. Forster · Edith Wharton · Emma Goldman · Ernest Hemingway · F. Scott Fitzgerald · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Frank Norris · Franz Kafka · Friedrich Nietzsche · G.K. Chesterton · George Bernard Shaw · H. G. Wells · H.G. Wells · H.L. Mencken · Henri Bergson · Henry James · Herman Melville · Jack London · James Joyce · John Dewey · John Galsworthy · Joseph Conrad · Kenneth Grahame · Knut Hamsun · Lytton Strachey · Marcel Proust · Mark Twain · Oscar Wilde · P.G. Wodehouse · Rabindranath Tagore · Rudyard Kipling · Samuel Butler · Sherwood Anderson · Sinclair Lewis · T.S. Eliot · Theodore Dreiser · Upton Sinclair · Virginia Woolf · W. E. B. Du Bois · W.B. Yeats · W.E.B. Du Bois · Willa Cather · William Faulkner · William James

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