These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream.A. Milne, Now We Are Six, illustrations by E. H. Shepard - Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women (collection of short stories) - William Faulkner, Mosquitoes - Agatha Christie, The Big Four - Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep - Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York (the original 1927 publication) - Franklin W. Dixon (pseudonym), The Tower Treasure (the first Hardy Boys book) - Hermann Hesse, Der Steppenwolf (in the original German) - Franz Kafka, Amerika (in the original German) - Marcel Proust, Le Temps retrouvé (the final installment of In Search of Lost Time, in the original French) These are just a handful of the thousands of books entering the public domain in 2023.Copyright will also expire over Arthur Conan Doyle’s final Sherlock Holmes stories—you can read more about copyright over characters and the Doyle estate’s attempts to artificially extend rights over Holmes and Dr. Watson here.Murnau) - The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller) - The King of Kings (directed by Cecil B. DeMille) - London After Midnight (now a lost film; directed by Tod Browning) - The Way of All Flesh (now a lost film; directed by Victor Fleming) - 7th Heaven (inspired the ending of the 2016 film La La Land; directed by Frank Borzage) - The Kid Brother (starring Harold Lloyd; directed by Ted Wilde) - The Battle of the Century (starring the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy; directed by Clyde Bruckman) - Upstream (directed by John Ford) 1927 marked the beginning of the end of the silent film era, with the release of the first full-length feature with synchronized dialogue and sound.King) - Puttin’ on the Ritz (Irving Berlin) - Funny Face and ’S Wonderful (Ira and George Gershwin; from the musical Funny Face) - Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man and Ol’ Man River (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern; from the musical Show Boat) - Back Water Blues, Preaching the Blues, Foolish Man Blues (Bessie Smith) - Potato Head Blues, Gully Low Blues (Louis Armstrong) - Rusty Pail Blues, Sloppy Water Blues, Soothin’ Syrup Stomp (Thomas Waller) - Black and Tan Fantasy and East St. Louis Toodle-O (Bub Miley, Duke Ellington) - Billy Goat Stomp, Hyena Stomp, Jungle Blues (Ferdinand Joseph Morton) - My Blue Heaven (George Whiting, Walter Donaldson) - Mississippi Mud (Harry Barris, James Cavanaugh) This year’s musical line-up includes Broadway hits, early blues songs, jazz standards, and more."