Author:John Davys Beresford
Wrote as J. D. Beresford. English writer, now remembered for his early science fiction and some short stories in the horror story and ghost story genres. Beresford was a great admirer of H. G. Wells, and wrote the first critical study of Wells in 1915.
Works[edit]
(partial list)
- Nineteen Impressions (1918) short stories; no index
- The Prisoners of Hartling (1922) no index
- The Early History of Jacob Stahl (1911) IA
- The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911) (as "The Wonder" in US, 1917)
- A Candidate for Truth (1912) (sequel to "The Early History of Jacob Stahl") IA
- Goslings: A World of Women (1913)
- The House in Demetrius Road (1914)
- The Mountains of the Moon (1915)
- The Invisible Event (1915) (sequel to "A Candidate for Truth") IA
- These Lynneskers (1916) IA
- House-Mates (1917) IA
- God's Counterpoint (1918)
- The Jervaise Comedy (1919)
- An Imperfect Mother (1920)
- Revolution: A Story of the Near Future in England (1921) (as "Revolution: a novel" in US) IA
- The Looking-Glass (1922) (transcription project)
Non fiction[edit]
- H.G. Wells (1915) criticism
- William Elphinstone Ford (1917) with Kenneth Richmond biography
Collections and individual short works[edit]
- Nineteen Impressions (1918)
- Introduction — Cut-Throat Farm — The Power o' Money — The Criminal — Flaws In The Time Scheme — The Little Town — The Lost Suburb — The Great Tradition — The Escape — Force Majeure — The Contemporaries — The Empty Theatre — The Ashes of Last Night's Fire — The Misanthrope — Powers of The Air — The Instrument of Destiny — The Man in the Machine — Lost in the Fog
- Signs and Wonders (1921)
- Prologue: The Appearance of Man — Signs and Wonders — The Cage — Enlargement — The Perfect Smile — The Hidden Beast — The Barrage — The Introvert — The Barrier — The Convert — A Negligible Experiment — The Miracle — Young Strickland's Career — A Difference of Temperament — Reference Wanted — As the Crow Flies — The Night of Creation
- The Imperturbable Duchess and Other Stories (1923)
Works from magazines[edit]
- "The Imperturbable Duchess" (ss) in Harper's Magazine, Aug 1913
- "A New Form of Matter" (essay) in Harper's Magazine, May 1919
- "Reparation" (ss) in Harper's Magazine, Aug 1919
- "Epilogue in a Puppet Show" (ss) in The Century Magazine, vol 82, 1922
- "The Looking-Glass" (ss) in Everybody's Magazine, 1922 May
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.
This author died in 1947, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 76 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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