J. B. Priestley (1894–1984)
Autore di An Inspector Calls
Sull'Autore
English novelist, playwright, and critic J. B. Priestley was born in Bradford in Yorkshire, the setting for many of his stories, and was educated at Cambridge University. Although he first established a reputation with critical writings such as The English Comic Characters (1925), The English Novel mostra altro (1927), and English Humor (1928), it is for his novels and plays that he is best known. Priestley was, like John Galsworthy and Somerset Maugham, a novelist only partially committed to his playwriting. Yet he became the dominant literary figure in the London West End during the 1930s, as he attempted to make realistically rendered domestic conversation the vehicle for a mature study of personality and emotion. Philosophical theories about time, Socialist dogmatism (often erupting into sermons), and a taste for dramatic expressionism may be said to have finally deflected him from his goal. Priestley's experimental bent nevertheless yielded, among his more than 25 plays, a number of striking theatrical situations---the soliloquies of Ever since Paradise, the reviewed life in Johnson over Jordan (1939), the replay of an ill-fated conversational turn in Dangerous Corner (his most successful play, 1934), and the supernatural visitation in An Inspector Calls (his acknowledged masterpiece, 1946). (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di J. B. Priestley
An Everyman Anthology of Excerpts Grave and Gay from Everyman's Library to Celebrate Its Diamond Jubilee (1966) — Introduzione — 10 copie
Adventures in English Literature, vol. 3: The Eighteenth Century through The Victorian Age (1963) 8 copie
Adventures in English Literature, vol. 1: The Anglo-Saxon Period through The Seventeenth Century (1931) 6 copie
Trumpets over the sea: being a rambling and egotistical account of the London Symphony Orchestra's engagement at… (1968) 4 copie
Book of Bodley Head Verse, The 3 copie
The Long Mirror 3 copie
Music at Night 3 copie
Wonderful London 3 copie
Four-in-Hand 3 copie
The arts under socialism : being a lecture given to the Fabian society with a postscript on what the government should… (1947) 3 copie
Rain Upon Godshill 2 copie
Faraway II 2 copie
W starym kraju 2 copie
The Good Companions [video] 2 copie
Faraway I 2 copie
The English Comic Characters 2 copie
Britain at War 2 copie
The Happy Dream 2 copie
Four English Biographies — A cura di — 2 copie
How Are They at Home? 2 copie
The Golden Fleece 2 copie
Good Night, Children 2 copie
Essayists Past and Present 2 copie
Mr. Strenberry's Tale 1 copia
The Grey Ones 1 copia
Albert Goes Through 1 copia
The Good Companions, Volume II 1 copia
The Three Star Mystery Book 1 copia
The Other Place | The Magicians 1 copia
Edwardian album 1 copia
Doktor Salt opouští město 1 copia
L`Homme et le temps 1 copia
Teatro 1 copia
Three Men in New Suits 1 copia
Novels of Thomas Love Peacock 1 copia
The Demon King 1 copia
festival 1 copia
Seeing Stratford 1 copia
H. G. Wells : obituary 1 copia
Underground 1 copia
Treasure of the pelican 1 copia
The Moments 1 copia
LOS HOMBRES DEL JUICIO FINAL 1 copia
Võlurid : [romaan] 1 copia
Dickens 1 copia
The Leadington Incident 1 copia
Going up. Stories and sketches 1 copia
[Obras] 1 copia
La isla lejana 1 copia
Opere correlate
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (2009) — Collaboratore — 366 copie
Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll's Dream Child as Seen Through the Critics' Looking-glasses, 1865-1971 (1971) — Collaboratore — 117 copie
Beyond Time: Classic Tales of Time Unwound (British Library Science Fiction Classics) (2019) — Collaboratore — 29 copie
An Inspector Calls — Writer — 10 copie
The Best of Stephen Leacock Vol. 1; My Financial Career And Other Stories — A cura di — 7 copie
They Came To a City [1944 film] — Original book — 7 copie
The London Mercury Vol Xxvii No 158 December 1932 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
The London Mercury, Vol. VIII No. 45 (July 1923) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Priestley, John Boynton
- Data di nascita
- 1894-09-13
- Data di morte
- 1984-08-14
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Parish church, Hubberholme, North Yorkshire, England
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Nazione (per mappa)
- England, UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Causa della morte
- pneumonia
- Luogo di residenza
- Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Istruzione
- University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall)
University of Bradford
Belle Vue Grammar School - Attività lavorative
- playwright
broadcaster
essayist
novelist
journalist - Relazioni
- Tempest, Emily "Pat" (married 1921-1925 [her death])
Wyndham-Lewis, Jane (married 1926-1953)
Hawkes, Jacquetta (married 1953-1984 [his death]))
Collins, Diana (friend) - Organizzazioni
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Common Wealth Party
British Army (WWI) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Order of Merit (1977)
Peerage (1965) [declined]
Companion of Honour (1969) [declined]
Freedom of the City of Bradford (England ∙ UK ∙ 1973)
Utenti
Recensioni
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Folio Society (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 224
- Opere correlate
- 62
- Utenti
- 6,001
- Popolarità
- #4,105
- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 97
- ISBN
- 381
- Lingue
- 13
- Preferito da
- 11