A Common Enemy
| Title | A Common Enemy |
| Year for Search | 1941 |
| Authors | Beresford, J[ohn] D[avys](1873-1947) |
| Tertiary Authors | Beresford, J. D. |
| Date Published | [1941] |
| Publisher | Hutchinson |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | The novel begins with a world-wide disaster brought about by an object passing through the solar system that throws the Earth'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. |
| Holding Institutions | L, MoU-St, PSt |
| Author Note | (1873-1947) |
| Full Text | [1941] Beresford, J[ohn] D[avys] (1873-1947). A Common Enemy. London: Hutchinson. L, MoU-St, PSt The novel begins with a world-wide disaster brought about by an object passing through the solar system that throws the Earth’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. |
