House-Mates
Wilfred Hornby, son of the vicar, spends his youth inside of a shell, and this is the story of his hatching; His first breaking away from accepted family standards comes when his chance meeting with Nellie Roberts develops into a clandestine love affair. "I feel no kind of shame or regret now when I think of it," he writes-and with that the interlude drops from the book. Hornby's engagement to his cousin Gladys terminates as abruptly when that young lady proves true to her cardboard standards and marries a more prosperous suitor. Hornby forthwith takes lodgings in semi-respectable Keppel Street, fastens his architect's plate on the door and spends the next year looking for an opening. The rest of the book is concerned with this year, and revolves around the inmates of the Keppel Street house, Hornby's "house mates."

Of these Judith is the center. Hornby loves her from their first unfortunate meeting when he makes the unforgivable mistake of classing her with the pseudo-"actress" of the second floor front. As a consequence of this error Hornby wins the stubborn hatred of Judith's friend Helen, who fights him at first openly, later secretly, even to the point of offering herself as a supreme sacrifice to open the eyes of her friend. The struggle for Judith and for idealism in his art give the plot its substance. Incidentally the life of the Keppel Street house, with its odd assortment of inmates is as vital a part of the book as the main thread of the story, for "House Mates" shows life not as a rounded entity, but as a succession without much neatness or finish and with no beginning and no stopping place-not even death.
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House-Mates
Wilfred Hornby, son of the vicar, spends his youth inside of a shell, and this is the story of his hatching; His first breaking away from accepted family standards comes when his chance meeting with Nellie Roberts develops into a clandestine love affair. "I feel no kind of shame or regret now when I think of it," he writes-and with that the interlude drops from the book. Hornby's engagement to his cousin Gladys terminates as abruptly when that young lady proves true to her cardboard standards and marries a more prosperous suitor. Hornby forthwith takes lodgings in semi-respectable Keppel Street, fastens his architect's plate on the door and spends the next year looking for an opening. The rest of the book is concerned with this year, and revolves around the inmates of the Keppel Street house, Hornby's "house mates."

Of these Judith is the center. Hornby loves her from their first unfortunate meeting when he makes the unforgivable mistake of classing her with the pseudo-"actress" of the second floor front. As a consequence of this error Hornby wins the stubborn hatred of Judith's friend Helen, who fights him at first openly, later secretly, even to the point of offering herself as a supreme sacrifice to open the eyes of her friend. The struggle for Judith and for idealism in his art give the plot its substance. Incidentally the life of the Keppel Street house, with its odd assortment of inmates is as vital a part of the book as the main thread of the story, for "House Mates" shows life not as a rounded entity, but as a succession without much neatness or finish and with no beginning and no stopping place-not even death.
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House-Mates

House-Mates

by J. D. Beresford
House-Mates

House-Mates

by J. D. Beresford

Overview

Wilfred Hornby, son of the vicar, spends his youth inside of a shell, and this is the story of his hatching; His first breaking away from accepted family standards comes when his chance meeting with Nellie Roberts develops into a clandestine love affair. "I feel no kind of shame or regret now when I think of it," he writes-and with that the interlude drops from the book. Hornby's engagement to his cousin Gladys terminates as abruptly when that young lady proves true to her cardboard standards and marries a more prosperous suitor. Hornby forthwith takes lodgings in semi-respectable Keppel Street, fastens his architect's plate on the door and spends the next year looking for an opening. The rest of the book is concerned with this year, and revolves around the inmates of the Keppel Street house, Hornby's "house mates."

Of these Judith is the center. Hornby loves her from their first unfortunate meeting when he makes the unforgivable mistake of classing her with the pseudo-"actress" of the second floor front. As a consequence of this error Hornby wins the stubborn hatred of Judith's friend Helen, who fights him at first openly, later secretly, even to the point of offering herself as a supreme sacrifice to open the eyes of her friend. The struggle for Judith and for idealism in his art give the plot its substance. Incidentally the life of the Keppel Street house, with its odd assortment of inmates is as vital a part of the book as the main thread of the story, for "House Mates" shows life not as a rounded entity, but as a succession without much neatness or finish and with no beginning and no stopping place-not even death.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781663507822
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date: 05/28/2020
Pages: 324
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

J. D. Beresford (17 March 1873 – 2 February 1947) was an English writer, now remembered for his early science fiction and some short stories in the horror story and ghost story genres. Beresford was a great admirer of H.G. Wells, and wrote the first critical study of Wells in 1915. His Wellsian novel "The Hampdenshire Wonder" was a major influence on Olaf Stapledon. His other science-fiction novels include "The Riddle of the Tower," about a dystopian, hive-like society.
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