John Davys Beresford was a restless and passionate seeker of truth whose quest led him to explore a range of ideas from materialism and realism to psychic research, psychoanalysis, Eastern mysticism, and Christian Science. An underlying idealism informs...
Although he was once considered a leader among the younger generation of Georgian novelists, J. D. Beresford currently stands as one of the most unjustly neglected figures of the period. His first novel, The Early History of Jacob Stahl (1911), praised b...
Although John Davys Beresford wrote more than sixty books, many of which received respectful reviews from contemporary reviewers, he is today virtually forgotten, with only his early fantastic fiction preserving his memory from complete extinction. This...
William J. Scheick, ed. Westport: Greenwood P, 1995. 194 pp. $55-00. Works that bring together a disparate collection of writings (twenty-six here) are inevitably difficult to pass judgment upon. Often, some pieces will be good, others bad, and still others neither markedly good...
By the time Herbert George Wells died -- at the age of 79, on Aug. 13, 1946 -- he had published more volumes than William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens combined. The most famous of his novels -- "The Time Machine" (1895), "The Invisible...
Oct 23 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to have occurred on October 30 since 1900: 1918 - The Slovaks agreed to a union with the Czechs under the name of Czechoslovakia. 1918 - Turkey signed an armistice which ended its...
UNCOMMON ARRANGEMENTS: SEVEN PORTRAITS OF MARRIED LIFE IN LONDON LITERARY CIRCLES, 1910–1939By Katie Roiphe The Dial Press, $26, 344 pages Within a certain social circle—O.K., mine—mention of the name Katie Roiphe inspires exasperated eye rolls, forehead slaps, even hisses. Ms. Roiphe is the author,...
