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John Davys Beresford was probably born in the village of Castor (near Peterborough) in 1873.
He was educated at Oundle School in Northamptonshire.
This book has seventeen chapters, with an Interlude and an Epilogue:
PART I:
My Early Association with Ginger Stott
I. The Motive
II. Notes for a Biography of Ginger Stott
III. The Disillusionment of Ginger Stott
PART II:
The Childhood of the Wonder
IV. The Manner of his Birth
V. His Departure from Stoke-Underhill
VI. His Father's Desertion
VII. His Debt to Henry Challis
VIII. His First Visit to Challis Court
INTERLUDE
PART II (continued)
The Wonder among Books
IX. His Passage through the Prison of Knowledge
X. His Pastors and Masters
XI. His Examination
XII. Fugitive
PART III:
My Association with the Wonder
XIII. How I went to Pym to Write a Book
XIV. The Incipience of my Subjection to the Wonder
XV. The Progess and Relaxation of my Subjection
XVI. Release
XVII. Implications
EPILOGUE:
The Uses of Mystery
List of Beresford's productions:
The Early History of Jacob Stahl (1911)
The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911) Novel
A Candidate for Truth (1912)
Goslings: A World of Women (1913) Novel
The House in Demetrius Road (1914) Novel
The Invisible Event (1915) Novel
H.G. Wells (1915) criticism
These Lynneskers (1916) Novel
William Elphinstone Ford (1917) biography, with Kenneth Richmond
House Mates (1917) Novel
Nineteen Impressions (1918) stories
God's Counterpoint (1918) Novel
The Jervaise Comedy (1919) Novel
The Imperfect Mother (1920) Novel
Signs and Wonders (1921) stories
Revolution (1921) Novel
The Prisoners of Hartling (1922) Novel
The Imperturbable Duchess and Other Stories (1923)
Monkey Puzzle (1925)
That Kind of Man, or Almost Pagan (1926) Novel
The Decoy (1927) Novel
The Instrument of Destiny (1928) mystery novel
All or Nothing (1928) Novel
Real People (1929) Novel
The Meeting Place and Other Stories (1929)
Love's Illusion (1930)
The Next Generation (1932) Novel
The Old People (1932) Novel
The Camberwell Miracle (1933) novel
Peckover (1934) Novel
On a Huge Hill (1935) Novel
Blackthorn Winter and other stories (1936)
Cleo (1937) Novel
What Dreams May Come (1941) Novel
A Common Enemy (1941) Novel
Men in the Same Boat (1943) (with Esmé Wynne-Tyson)
The Riddle of the Tower (1944) (with Esmé Wynne-Tyson)
The Gift (1947) (with Esmé Wynne-Tyson)
The Prisoner
Love's Pilgrim
The Tapestry
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