J. B. Priestley (1894–1984)
Auteur de An Inspector Calls
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus (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) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de J. B. Priestley
An Everyman Anthology of Excerpts Grave and Gay from Everyman's Library to Celebrate Its Diamond Jubilee (1966) — Introduction — 10 exemplaires
Adventures in English Literature, vol. 3: The Eighteenth Century through The Victorian Age (1963) 8 exemplaires
Adventures in English Literature, vol. 1: The Anglo-Saxon Period through The Seventeenth Century (1931) 6 exemplaires
My Three Favorite Novels: Angel Pavement, Bright Day, Sir Michael and Sir George (1978) 5 exemplaires
Trumpets over the sea: being a rambling and egotistical account of the London Symphony Orchestra's engagement at… (1968) 4 exemplaires
Book of Bodley Head Verse, The 3 exemplaires
The Long Mirror 3 exemplaires
Music at Night 3 exemplaires
Wonderful London 3 exemplaires
Four-in-Hand 3 exemplaires
An Inspector Calls and Other Plays Time and the Conways 3 exemplaires
The arts under socialism : being a lecture given to the Fabian society with a postscript on what the government should… (1947) 3 exemplaires
Rain Upon Godshill 2 exemplaires
Faraway II 2 exemplaires
W starym kraju 2 exemplaires
The Good Companions [video] 2 exemplaires
Faraway I 2 exemplaires
The English Comic Characters 2 exemplaires
Manpower: The Story of Britain's Mobilisation for War 2 exemplaires
Britain at War 2 exemplaires
The Happy Dream 2 exemplaires
Four English Biographies — Directeur de publication — 2 exemplaires
How Are They at Home? 2 exemplaires
The Golden Fleece 2 exemplaires
Good Night, Children 2 exemplaires
Essayists Past and Present 2 exemplaires
Plays, Volume I (Heron Collected Works of Priestley) 1 exemplaire
Mr. Strenberry's Tale 1 exemplaire
The Grey Ones 1 exemplaire
Albert Goes Through 1 exemplaire
The Good Companions, Volume II 1 exemplaire
The Three Star Mystery Book 1 exemplaire
The Other Place | The Magicians 1 exemplaire
Edwardian album 1 exemplaire
Topside, or The Future of England: A Dialogue 1 exemplaire
Doktor Salt opouští město 1 exemplaire
L`Homme et le temps 1 exemplaire
Teatro 1 exemplaire
Three Men in New Suits 1 exemplaire
Novels of Thomas Love Peacock 1 exemplaire
The Demon King 1 exemplaire
festival 1 exemplaire
Seeing Stratford 1 exemplaire
Jenny Villers - A Story of the Theatre 1 exemplaire
H. G. Wells : obituary 1 exemplaire
Underground 1 exemplaire
Treasure of the pelican 1 exemplaire
Angel Pavement | The Doomsday Men 1 exemplaire
The Moments 1 exemplaire
LOS HOMBRES DEL JUICIO FINAL 1 exemplaire
Võlurid : [romaan] 1 exemplaire
Dickens 1 exemplaire
Bright shadow, a play of detection in three acts 1 exemplaire
Monsieur le ministre 1 exemplaire
Going up. Stories and sketches 1 exemplaire
[Obras] 1 exemplaire
La isla lejana 1 exemplaire
Papers From Lilliput: A collection of essays 1 exemplaire
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The London Mercury Vol Xxvii No 158 December 1932 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Priestley, John Boynton
- Date de naissance
- 1894-09-13
- Date de décès
- 1984-08-14
- Lieu de sépulture
- Parish church, Hubberholme, North Yorkshire, England
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Pays (pour la carte)
- England, UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Cause du décès
- pneumonia
- Lieux de résidence
- Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Études
- University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall)
University of Bradford
Belle Vue Grammar School - Professions
- playwright
broadcaster
essayist
novelist
journalist - Relations
- Tempest, Emily "Pat" (married 1921-1925 [her death])
Wyndham-Lewis, Jane (married 1926-1953)
Hawkes, Jacquetta (married 1953-1984 [his death]))
Collins, Diana (friend) - Organisations
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Common Wealth Party
British Army (WWI) - Prix et distinctions
- Order of Merit (1977)
Peerage (1965) [declined]
Companion of Honour (1969) [declined]
Freedom of the City of Bradford (England ∙ UK ∙ 1973)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Folio Society (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 224
- Aussi par
- 62
- Membres
- 5,998
- Popularité
- #4,107
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 96
- ISBN
- 381
- Langues
- 12
- Favoris
- 11