J. B. Priestley (1894–1984)
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Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más (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) mostrar menos
Series
Obras de J. B. Priestley
An Everyman Anthology of Excerpts Grave and Gay from Everyman's Library to Celebrate Its Diamond Jubilee (1966) — Introducción — 10 copias
Adventures in English Literature, vol. 3: The Eighteenth Century through The Victorian Age (1963) 8 copias
Adventures in English Literature, vol. 1: The Anglo-Saxon Period through The Seventeenth Century (1931) 6 copias
Trumpets over the sea: being a rambling and egotistical account of the London Symphony Orchestra's engagement at… (1968) 4 copias
Book of Bodley Head Verse, The 3 copias
The Long Mirror 3 copias
Music at Night 3 copias
Wonderful London 3 copias
Four-in-Hand 3 copias
The arts under socialism : being a lecture given to the Fabian society with a postscript on what the government should… (1947) 3 copias
Rain Upon Godshill 2 copias
Faraway II 2 copias
W starym kraju 2 copias
The Good Companions [video] 2 copias
Faraway I 2 copias
The English Comic Characters 2 copias
Britain at War 2 copias
The Happy Dream 2 copias
Four English Biographies — Editor — 2 copias
How Are They at Home? 2 copias
The Golden Fleece 2 copias
Good Night, Children 2 copias
Essayists Past and Present 2 copias
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
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Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll's Dream Child as Seen Through the Critics' Looking-glasses, 1865-1971 (1971) — Contribuidor — 117 copias
Beyond Time: Classic Tales of Time Unwound (British Library Science Fiction Classics) (2019) — Contribuidor — 29 copias
An Inspector Calls — Writer — 10 copias
The Best of Stephen Leacock Vol. 1; My Financial Career And Other Stories — Editor — 7 copias
They Came To a City [1944 film] — Original book — 7 copias
The London Mercury Vol Xxvii No 158 December 1932 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
The London Mercury, Vol. VIII No. 45 (July 1923) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Priestley, John Boynton
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1894-09-13
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1984-08-14
- Lugar de sepultura
- Parish church, Hubberholme, North Yorkshire, England
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- País (para mapa)
- England, UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Causa de fallecimiento
- pneumonia
- Lugares de residencia
- Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Educación
- University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall)
University of Bradford
Belle Vue Grammar School - Ocupaciones
- playwright
broadcaster
essayist
novelist
journalist - Relaciones
- Tempest, Emily "Pat" (married 1921-1925 [her death])
Wyndham-Lewis, Jane (married 1926-1953)
Hawkes, Jacquetta (married 1953-1984 [his death]))
Collins, Diana (friend) - Organizaciones
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Common Wealth Party
British Army (WWI) - Premios y honores
- Order of Merit (1977)
Peerage (1965) [declined]
Companion of Honour (1969) [declined]
Freedom of the City of Bradford (England ∙ UK ∙ 1973)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Folio Society (1)
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 224
- También por
- 62
- Miembros
- 5,996
- Popularidad
- #4,107
- Valoración
- 4.2
- Reseñas
- 96
- ISBNs
- 381
- Idiomas
- 12
- Favorito
- 11