Nineteen Impressions
NINETEEN
IMPRESSIONS
BY
J. D. BERESFORD
LONDON
SIDGWICK & JACKSON, LTD.
1918
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR
NOVELS
- THE EARLY HISTORY OF JACOB STAHL )
- A CANDIDATE FOR TRUTH ) A Trilogy
- THE INVISIBLE EVENT )
- THE HOUSE IN DEMETRIUS ROAD
- THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON
- THESE LYNNEKERS
- HOUSEMATES
FANTASIES
THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER
GOSLINGS
CRITICISM
H. G. WELLS
TO
MY WIFE
Contents
page Introduction ix Cut-Throat Farm 1 The Power o' Money 11 The Criminal 23 Flaws In The Time Scheme— I. An Effect of Reincarnation 41 II. A Case of Prevision 51 III. The Late Occupier 65 The Little Town 71 The Lost Suburb 85 The Great Tradition 107 The Escape 113 Force Majeure 125 The Contemporaries 137 The Empty Theatre 145 The Ashes of Last Night's Fire 157 The Misanthrope 165 Powers of The Air 183 The Instrument of Destiny 195 The Man in the Machine 207 Lost in the Fog 215
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