Author:John Davys Beresford

John Davys Beresford
(1873–1947)

Works

(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

• H.G. Wells (1915) criticism
• William Elphinstone Ford (1917) with Kenneth Richmond biography

Collections and individual short works

• 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

• "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