J. B. Priestley (1894–1984)
Autor/a de An Inspector Calls
Sobre l'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 mostra'n més (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'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de J. B. Priestley
An Everyman Anthology of Excerpts Grave and Gay from Everyman's Library to Celebrate Its Diamond Jubilee (1966) — Introducció — 10 exemplars
Adventures in English Literature, vol. 3: The Eighteenth Century through The Victorian Age (1963) 8 exemplars
Adventures in English Literature, vol. 1: The Anglo-Saxon Period through The Seventeenth Century (1931) 6 exemplars
Trumpets over the sea: being a rambling and egotistical account of the London Symphony Orchestra's engagement at… (1968) 4 exemplars
Book of Bodley Head Verse, The 3 exemplars
The Long Mirror 3 exemplars
Music at Night 3 exemplars
Wonderful London 3 exemplars
Four-in-Hand 3 exemplars
The arts under socialism : being a lecture given to the Fabian society with a postscript on what the government should… (1947) 3 exemplars
Rain Upon Godshill 2 exemplars
Faraway II 2 exemplars
W starym kraju 2 exemplars
The Good Companions [video] 2 exemplars
Faraway I 2 exemplars
The English Comic Characters 2 exemplars
Britain at War 2 exemplars
The Happy Dream 2 exemplars
Four English Biographies — Editor — 2 exemplars
How Are They at Home? 2 exemplars
The Golden Fleece 2 exemplars
Good Night, Children 2 exemplars
Essayists Past and Present 2 exemplars
Mr. Strenberry's Tale 1 exemplars
The Grey Ones 1 exemplars
Albert Goes Through 1 exemplars
The Good Companions, Volume II 1 exemplars
The Three Star Mystery Book 1 exemplars
The Other Place | The Magicians 1 exemplars
Edwardian album 1 exemplars
Topside, or The Future of England: A Dialogue 1 exemplars
Doktor Salt opouští město 1 exemplars
L`Homme et le temps 1 exemplars
Teatro 1 exemplars
Three Men in New Suits 1 exemplars
Novels of Thomas Love Peacock 1 exemplars
The Demon King 1 exemplars
festival 1 exemplars
Seeing Stratford 1 exemplars
Jenny Villers - A Story of the Theatre 1 exemplars
H. G. Wells : obituary 1 exemplars
Underground 1 exemplars
Treasure of the pelican 1 exemplars
Angel Pavement | The Doomsday Men 1 exemplars
The Moments 1 exemplars
LOS HOMBRES DEL JUICIO FINAL 1 exemplars
Võlurid : [romaan] 1 exemplars
Dickens 1 exemplars
Bright shadow, a play of detection in three acts 1 exemplars
The Leadington Incident 1 exemplars
Going up. Stories and sketches 1 exemplars
[Obras] 1 exemplars
La isla lejana 1 exemplars
Papers From Lilliput: A collection of essays 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Vida i opinions de Tristram Shandy, home de llinatge (1759) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 7,661 exemplars
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen (2009) — Col·laborador — 365 exemplars
Aspects of Alice: Lewis Carroll's Dream Child as Seen Through the Critics' Looking-glasses, 1865-1971 (1971) — Col·laborador — 117 exemplars
Beyond Time: Classic Tales of Time Unwound (British Library Science Fiction Classics) (2019) — Col·laborador — 29 exemplars
An Inspector Calls — Writer — 10 exemplars
The Best of Stephen Leacock Vol. 1; My Financial Career And Other Stories — Editor — 7 exemplars
They Came To a City [1944 film] — Original book — 7 exemplars
The London Mercury Vol Xxvii No 158 December 1932 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
The London Mercury, Vol. VIII No. 45 (July 1923) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Priestley, John Boynton
- Data de naixement
- 1894-09-13
- Data de defunció
- 1984-08-14
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Parish church, Hubberholme, North Yorkshire, England
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- País (per posar en el mapa)
- England, UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Causa de la mort
- pneumonia
- Llocs de residència
- Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Educació
- University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall)
University of Bradford
Belle Vue Grammar School - Professions
- playwright
broadcaster
essayist
novelist
journalist - Relacions
- Tempest, Emily "Pat" (married 1921-1925 [her death])
Wyndham-Lewis, Jane (married 1926-1953)
Hawkes, Jacquetta (married 1953-1984 [his death]))
Collins, Diana (friend) - Organitzacions
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Common Wealth Party
British Army (WWI) - Premis i honors
- Order of Merit (1977)
Peerage (1965) [declined]
Companion of Honour (1969) [declined]
Freedom of the City of Bradford (England ∙ UK ∙ 1973)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Folio Society (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 224
- També de
- 62
- Membres
- 5,996
- Popularitat
- #4,107
- Valoració
- 4.2
- Ressenyes
- 96
- ISBN
- 381
- Llengües
- 12
- Preferit
- 11