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    J. B. Priestley

    ‘An exquisitely-written, generous, funny, thoughtful book about the everyday joys of being alive. I love it.’ Dolly Alderton ‘J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th…

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    Three Men in Suits

    J B Priestley

    A forgotten classic by the prolific playwright and novelist J B Priestley, newly published in the IWM Wartime Classics series.

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    J. B. Priestley’s Fiction

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    With around thirty novels, J.B. Priestley is a major twentieth-century novelist. His reputation as a dramatist, essayist and general man of letters has tended to obscure his solid and highly…

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    English Journey

    J. B. Priestley

    In 1934, JB Priestley published an account of his journey through England from Southampton to the Black Country, to the North East and Newcastle, to Norwich and home. Broadcaster and…

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    An Inspector Calls and Other Plays

    J B Priestley

    An Inspector Calls , the title play in this collection, was written inside a week in 1944. Inspector Goole, investigating a girl’s death, calls on the Birlings, an outwardly virtuous…

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    Priestley’S England: J. B. Priestley and English Culture

    John Baxendale

    Priestley’s England explores the cultural, literary and political history of twentieth-century Britain through the radical critique offered by one of its most popular writers, J B Priestley. Its wide-ranging themes…

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    The Good Companions

    Edward Koblock,J B Priestley

    The Good Companions focuses on the trials and tribulations of a concert party between the World Wars. It was arguably Priestley’s most famous novel, written in 1929, and the work…

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    Priestley: Plays One

    J. B. Priestley

    The widely performed and prolific Priestley experimented with many forms in his long career as a playwright, moving adeptly from expressionism to farce to political drama. This volume includes: When…

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    Priestley: Plays Two

    J. B. Priestley

    The second volume of Collect plays from the author of An Inspector Calls.

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    An inspector calls

    J B Priestley

    One of a series presenting a wide choice of 20th-century drama. The books offer scene-by-scene analysis, structured questions and assignment suggestions for GCSE. In this play, a prosperous family’s party…

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    Dangerous Corner

    J. B. Priestley

    At their stylish country retreat, Freda and Robert Caplan host a dinner party for their colleagues and friends. Young, beautiful and successful, they have the world at their feet. Then…

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    Eden End

    J. B. Priestley

    Stella Kirby spent nine years running away; leaving home to find her freedom as an actress. Now she has decided that the only role left to play is the prodigal…

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    Priestley Plays Four

    J. B. Priestley

    Two comic plays by one of Britain’s seminal playwrights, that show another side to the writer of Dangerous Corner and An Inspector Calls.

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    J.B. Priestley: Plays Three

    J. B. Priestley

    A trilogy of formally innovative plays written between 1938 to 1940, linked by their fascination with twin strands of Music and Time, and shadowed by the outset of World War…

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    Papers From Lilliput

    J B Priestley

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    Papers From Lilliput

    J B Priestley

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    Laburnum Grove: Play

    J. B. Priestley

    George Radfern lives a quiet, uneventful life near London, burdened by sponging relatives and his prospective son-in-law. When George quietly announces he’s a leader of a counterfeit ring, the sponges…

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    Glass of Bitter: Play

    J. B. Priestley

    A quiet, domesticated couple, Fred and Norah, live in a London suburb. They have married later in life than most people and are devoted to one another. It is Fred’s…

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    Try it Again: Play

    J. B. Priestley

    In the drawing room of a house in the country three women are arguing over a man. The man is Colin, and the argument is heated, for one of the…

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    The Long Mirror

    J B Priestley

    The Long Mirror recounts the meeting between a composer and a young woman who seems to have been telepathically connected to him for some time, and has experienced much of…

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    Cornelius

    J B Priestley

    As bankrupcy looms, the ever-optimistic Jim Cornelius, partner at import firm briggs and Murrison, is fighting to keep his creditors happy and his spirits up. Tensions rise with the arrival…

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    Ever Since Paradise

    J B Priestley

    Ever Since Paradise he described as ‘A Discursive Entertainment, chiefly referring to Love and Marriage in Three Acts’. Three couples are made up of the Musicians, the Commentators and the…

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    The Scandalous Affair of Mr Kettle and Mrs Moon

    J B Priestley

    On his way to work at the bank one morning, the manager Mr Kettle freaks out. He goes back home changes into his casual clothes and sets about enjoying himself…

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    Private Rooms

    J B Priestley

    A one act comedy in the Viennese style. The scene shows two private rooms in a restaurnat in a Central European capital about the year 1900. In one, a vain…

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    Brief Diversions: Being Tales, Travesties and Epigrams (1922)

    J B Priestley

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…

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    Margin Released: A Writer’s Reminiscences and Reflections

    J B Priestley

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    Brief Diversions: Being Tales, Travesties and Epigrams (1922)

    J B Priestley

    This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

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    Thomas Love Peacock

    J B Priestley

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    Thomas Love Peacock

    J B Priestley

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    Summer Day’s Dream

    J. B. Priestley

    JB Priestley’s dystopian drama, first performed in 1949, is set in the post apocalyptic future - 1975.

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    Blackout in Gretley (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

    J B Priestley

    Humphrey Neyland is a middle-aged Canadian engineer recruited by British Intelligence to go undercover in the industrial city of Gretley, where aircraft essential to the war effort are being produced…

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    Jenny Villiers

    J B Priestley

    Once passionate about the theatre, playwright Martin Cheveril is now disillusioned and contemplating a change of career. His new play, a bitter and cynical piece, is about to premiere when…

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    When We are Married

    J. B. Priestley

    Three eminently respectable Yorkshire couples are in the midst of their joint silver wedding celebrations when they receive a rude shock - they are not legally married. Confronted with this…

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    They Came to a City: Play

    J. B. Priestley

    Just before dawn the play’s characters - who represent every stratum of society - come to the wall overlooking a strange city whose gate is shut against them. At daybreak…

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    Mother’s Day: Play

    J. B. Priestley

    A humorous portrayal of how mothers are treated in a family. It was first performed as a play in 1953. 3 women, 2 men

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    George Meredith

    J B Priestley

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    Rose and Crown: Morality Play

    J. B. Priestley

    This is the first of Priestley’s published one-act plays and originated as a specially written television play for the BBC. It was transmitted from Alexandra Palace first on 27 August…

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    Margin Released: A Writer’s Reminiscences and Reflections

    J B Priestley

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    Margin Released: A Writer’s Reminiscences and Reflections

    J B Priestley

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    William Hazlitt

    J. B. Priestley

    In this 1960 study, J. B. Priestley examines the life and career of William Hazlitt, a writer who markedly
    influences Priestley's own work.

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    Brief Diversions: Being Tales, Travesties and Epigrams

    J B Priestley

    Brief Diversions: Being Tales, Travesties and Epigrams
    , has been considered a very important part of the human history, but is currently not available in printed formats. Hence so that…

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    Other Place & Other Stories of the Same Sort

    J B Priestley

    First published: London: Heinemann, 1953.

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    The Other Place and Other Stories of the Same Sort (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

    J B Priestley

    First published: London: Heinemann, 1953.

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    I Have Been Here Before

    J. B. Priestley

    A British wife, her elderly husband and her lover meet a German professor at an Inn in Yorkshire. His probing questions reveal that they are unhappy and confused. They have…

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    Laburnum Grove

    J. B. Priestley

    A forgotten play by JB Priestley. Last seen at the Duke of York’s Theatre in the West End in 1977, starring Arthur Lowe, this edgy comedy was revived in London…

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    Time and the Conways: Play

    J. B. Priestley

    4m, 6f / Scenery: Interior The Conways are having a party to celebrate Kay’s twenty first birthday. Kay hopes to be a novelist. Hazel, the beauty, anticipates a romantic marriage…

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    Eden End

    J B Priestley

    Stella Kirby spent nine years running away; leaving home to find her freedom as an actress. Now she has decided that the only role left to play is the prodigal…

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