While Lady Chatterley’s Lover was eventually published intact, Djuna Barnes’s first novel Ryder never was. Barnes replaced passages she was forced to cut with asterisks, “showing plainly”, she wrote, “where the war, so blindly waged on the written word, has left its mark”. After the original text was lost in World War II, the cuts were never restored. Still, Len Gutkin calls what remains an “utterly sui generis 1928 comic novel“. It joins the public domain in 4 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown