If your New Year’s resolution was to translate Rilke’s Duino Elegies into English, you’re in luck. The German original is one of thousands of works that entered the public domain Jan. 1, along with Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet, Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room, and Robert Frost’s New Hampshire, the collection in which “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” first appeared.

Entering the public domain means a work is free to be reprinted, adapted for the screen, recorded as an audiobook, or rewritten as a parody (unless, as in Gibran’s case, the original is already beyond parody). The author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, who achieved an improbable bestseller in 2009 with his literary spoof, can now follow it up with Tarzan and the Golden Lion and Goblins or Wolfman versus the Inimitable Jeeves.