John Davys Beresford: 3 books
by John Davys Beresford
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
John Davys Beresford (17 March 1873 – 1 February 1947) was an 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. His Wellsian...
by Algernon Blackwood, Alan Graham, John Galsworthy
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
When Edward J. O'Brien asked me to cooperate with him in choosing each year's best English short stories, to be published as a companion volume to his annual selection of the best American short stories, I had not realized that at the end of my arduous task, which has involved the reading of many hundreds...
by John Davys Beresford
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The life and writings of Pope have been discussed in a literature more voluminous than that which exists in the case of almost any Other English man of letters. No biographer, however, has produced a definitive or exhaustive work. It seems therefore desirable to indicate the main authorities upon...