World Library Foundation Newsletter Dept.
2021
The World Library Foundation's newsletter for January 2021 (Volume 5, Issue 1). The Class of 1925: on January 1, 2021, the books, songs and films of 1925 entered the U.S. public domain, among them F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Hemingway's In Our Time, Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Lewis's Arrowsmith, Kafka's Der Prozess and Alain Locke's The New Negro, twenty years after they were first due under the old 75-year term. Also in this issue: the Executive Director's message, "A New Year on the Common Shelf"; The German Empire at 150, on the proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles on January 18, 1871; and from the Library Exhibits, Japonisme: When Japanese Art Changed the West.
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