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The Collected Works of J.B. Priestley

John Boynton Priestley (1894-1984). Bradford born, author, novelist, playwright, essayist, broadcaster, scriptwriter, social commentator and man of letters, whose career straddled the 20th Century. Priestley’s first major success came with a novel, The Good Companions (1929), which earned him the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and made him a national figure. His next novel, Angel Pavement (1930), further established him as a successful novelist. In 1934 he published the travelogue English Journey, which is an account of what he saw and heard while travelling through the country in the autumn of the previous year. He moved into a new genre and became equally well known as a dramatist. Dangerous Corner was the first of a series of plays that enthralled West End theatre audiences. His best-known play is An Inspector Calls (1945), later made into a film starring Alastair Sim released in 1954. His plays are more varied in tone than the novels. Many of his works have a socialist aspect. For example, An Inspector Calls, contains many references to socialism — the inspector was arguably an alter ego through which Priestley could express his views.

• They Walk in the City
• Adam in Moonshine & Benighted
• Margin Released
• The Doomesday Men & the Shapes of Sleep
• The Other Place & the Magicians
• The Moments & Other Pieces
• Sir Michael & Sir George
• Journey Down a Rainbow
• Festival at Farbridge
• Wonder Hero
• Midnight on the Desert & Rain Upon Godshill
• Low Notes on a High Level & the Thirty First of June
• Let the People Sing
• The Good Companions
• Lost Empires
• Literature & Western Man
• Delight & Selection of Essays
• English Journey
• FarAway
• Angel Pavement
• Bright Day
• Blackout in Gretley
• Daylight on Saturday
• Saturn Over The Water
• Plays I – Eden End, Dangerous Corner, Time and the Conways, I Have Been Here Before, Johnson Over Jordan, Music At Night and The Linden Tree.
• Plays II – Laburnum Grove, Bees on the Boat Deck, When We Are Married, Good Night Children, The Golden Fleece, How Are They At Home?, Ever Since Paradise
• Plays III – Cornelius, People at Sea, They Came to a City, Desert Highway, An Inspector Calls, Home is Tomorrow and Summer Day’s Dream.

Features;

• Publisher Heron Books, London
• Hardback, Blue Faux Leather
• Size 205 x 125mm, 17kg

Condition: Very Good – No Inscriptions, Very Good Complete Set

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