Goslings
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in the history of early science fiction who want to understand the origins of disaster narratives
- Literature lovers willing to read English public-domain books and accept a slower narrative pace
- Students or researchers studying social allegory and the theme of civilizational reconstruction
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting tense, thrilling apocalyptic adventure plots
- People with limited English reading ability who need a Chinese translation for support
Reading tips
- Start with the opening description of the plague's spread, then pay attention to how order changes within the group of survivors
- Read the novel in the context of 1910s British science fiction, and compare it with Wells's works
- For the English original, use the ebook's search function; when encountering unfamiliar words, read through the paragraph first and look them up afterward
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
J. D. Beresford (John Davys Beresford, 1873–1947) was an English novelist whose biography is sparsely documented, and whose personal details remain little known to general readers. Seven of his works are held in this collection, spanning science fiction, social satire, and supernatural tales. Early works such as The Hampdenshire Wonder and The Wonder centre on precocious children and explore the predicament of exceptional intellects in an ordinary society, with a distinctly speculative bent. Goslings imagines survival after the collapse of social order and is often placed in the tradition of disaster and dystopian fiction. The Jervaise Comedy leans toward social comedy, light in tone yet ironic. He also wrote a critical study of H. G. Wells, indicating his intellectual ties to a leading figure of contemporary science fiction, while The Psychical Researcher's Tale - The Sceptical Poltergeist and similar pieces venture into the supernatural. Overall, his writing combines scientific imagination with social observation in a cool, restrained style.
