@booklet {6823, title = {The Riddle of the Tower}, year = {1944}, month = {[1944]}, publisher = {Hutchinson}, address = {London}, abstract = {

A number of past and future societies are presented from an anti-utopian perspective. The focus of the novel is on the horrors of communalism.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author, Male author}, author = {J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) and Esm{\'e} Wynne-Tyson (1898-1972)} } @booklet {6812, title = {A Common Enemy}, year = {1941}, month = {[1941]}, publisher = {Hutchinson}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The novel begins with a world-wide disaster brought about by an object passing through the solar system that throws the Earth\&$\#$39;s orbit off, causing massive storms and\ world-wide shifts in land, and moving Earth closer to the sun. This ends World War II because most of Germany is flooded. In Britain, led by a man who recognizes that the disaster provides a common enemy that pulls people together, the rebuilding process slowly produces a socialist eutopia. Democracy rejected at the national level, but local democracy is being created.\ At the end of the novel, although the U.S. is recreating competitive capitalism, Europeans are in the process of creating similar cooperative systems.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947)} } @booklet {6813, title = {"What Dreams May Come..."}, year = {1941}, month = {[1941]}, publisher = {Hutchinson}, address = {London}, abstract = {

A man in contemporary, wartime Britain dreams of the future of another world that had had a past like Earth\&$\#$39;s but is now a communal eutopia. The dreams are presented initially through the dreams of the man as a young boy. The dreams, which he could sometimes access at will even while awake, provided an escape from an unhappy home life, and much of the novel concerns the boy\’s life as he matures. He is able to live there for a longer period after being injured in a World War 2 air raid and falling into a coma. Returning to the war, he is arrested for subversion for talking about his experience.\ In the future there have been significant physical changes in the human race. Telepathy is normal. Sexual differences are less obvious. Only thirty books are considered worth reading. Vegetarian with no cooking.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947)} } @booklet {553, title = {Revolution: A Novel}, year = {1921}, note = {

U.S. ed. as Revolution: A Story of the Near Future in England. New York: G.P. Putnam\’s Sons, 1921.\ 

}, month = {1921}, publisher = {W. Collins \& Sons}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Dystopia depicting a revolution as it effects one parish as seen primarily through the eyes of a man who tries to see both sides. A labour dictatorship emerges that plans to establish a socialist system, but the people reject equality and common property. The counter-revolution succeeds but simply replaces one dictatorship with another. At the end the protagonist is at the beginning of a campaign to bring the country back together.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947)} } @booklet {398, title = {Goslings}, year = {1913}, note = {

Rpt. Boston, MA/Brooklyn, NY: HiLo Books, 2013 with an \“An Un-Cozy Atmosphere. Introduction\” by Astra Taylor (13-17); and Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with the introduction by Astra Taylor retitled \“Introduction: Out of the Wreckage (xiii-xx). xx + 318 pp. U.S. ed. as A World of Women. New York: Macauley Co., 1913. Rpt. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with the introduction by Astra Taylor retitled \“Introduction: Out of the Wreckage (xiii-xx). xx + 318 pp.

}, month = {1913}, pages = {325 pp. }, publisher = {William Heinemann}, address = {London}, abstract = {

The novel describes the results of a plague that mostly affects men but not women. One focus is on a group of women who organize a generally successful community based on the principle that everyone earned a right through labor to a share in what could be produced. After contact is made with parts of the world less affected by the plague, the outlines are given of a future eutopia based on greater gender equality.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947)} }