Having won worldly success, Sam and Fran Dodsworth pursue the dream many couples have to retire early and travel the world together. It doesn’t work out as they’d hoped. Sinclair Lewis had a similar experience in reverse with what Martin Ausmus called his “most sympathetic yet most savage” novel: he began it while getting a divorce from his first wife, and won the Nobel Prize, pinnacle of critical success, after it came out. The public domain wins Dodsworth in 12 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown