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A collection of imaginative pieces that probe the boundary between material reality and subtler states of consciousness, mixing speculative metaphysics, dreamlike visions, and quiet social satire. The writings shift among forms—a prologue presented as a play, short narratives, and parable-like sketches—and repeatedly place ordinary conversation and domestic detail alongside cosmic or apocalyptic occurrences. Recurring concerns include the notion of an etheric or psychic body, experiments in altered perception, the limits of rational explanation, and the tension between everyday complacency and unsettling transcendent phenomena.

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Title: Signs & Wonders

Author: J. D. Beresford

Release date: May 19, 2019 [eBook #59549]

Language: English

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By the same Author:
THE EARLY HISTORY OF JACOB STAHL
A CANDIDATE FOR TRUTH
THE INVISIBLE TRUTH
THE HAMPDENSHIRE WONDER
GOSLINGS: A WORLD OF WOMEN
THE HOUSE IN DEMETRIUS ROAD
THESE LYNNEKERS
HOUSEMATES
NINETEEN IMPRESSIONS
GOD’S COUNTERPOINT
THE JERVAISE COMEDY
AN IMPERFECT MOTHER
REVOLUTION
With Kenneth Richmond:
W. E. FORD: A BIOGRAPHY

Printed in Great Britain.



SIGNS & WONDERS

BY J. D. BERESFORD

G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK   .   .   .   MCMXXI


TO
WALTER DE LA MARE

Hath serving nature, bidden of the gods,
Thick-screened Man’s narrow sky,
And hung these Stygian veils of fog
To hide his dingied sty?—
The gods who yet, at mortal birth,
Bequeathed him fantasy?
FOG’ by WALTER DE LA MARE