J. B. Priestley (1894–1984)
Auteur van An Inspector Calls
Over de 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 toon meer (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) toon minder
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Werken van J. B. Priestley
An Everyman Anthology of Excerpts Grave and Gay from Everyman's Library to Celebrate Its Diamond Jubilee (1966) — Introductie — 10 exemplaren
Adventures in English Literature, vol. 3: The Eighteenth Century through The Victorian Age (1963) 8 exemplaren
Adventures in English Literature, vol. 1: The Anglo-Saxon Period through The Seventeenth Century (1931) 6 exemplaren
My Three Favorite Novels: Angel Pavement, Bright Day, Sir Michael and Sir George (1978) 5 exemplaren
Trumpets over the sea: being a rambling and egotistical account of the London Symphony Orchestra's engagement at… (1968) 4 exemplaren
Book of Bodley Head Verse, The 3 exemplaren
The Long Mirror 3 exemplaren
Music at Night 3 exemplaren
Wonderful London 3 exemplaren
Four-in-Hand 3 exemplaren
The arts under socialism : being a lecture given to the Fabian society with a postscript on what the government should… (1947) 3 exemplaren
Rain Upon Godshill 2 exemplaren
Faraway II 2 exemplaren
W starym kraju 2 exemplaren
The Good Companions [video] 2 exemplaren
Faraway I 2 exemplaren
The English Comic Characters 2 exemplaren
Britain at War 2 exemplaren
The Happy Dream 2 exemplaren
Four English Biographies — Redacteur — 2 exemplaren
How Are They at Home? 2 exemplaren
The Golden Fleece 2 exemplaren
Good Night, Children 2 exemplaren
Essayists Past and Present 2 exemplaren
Mr. Strenberry's Tale 1 exemplaar
The Grey Ones 1 exemplaar
Albert Goes Through 1 exemplaar
The Good Companions, Volume II 1 exemplaar
The Three Star Mystery Book 1 exemplaar
The Other Place | The Magicians 1 exemplaar
Edwardian album 1 exemplaar
Topside, or The Future of England: A Dialogue 1 exemplaar
Doktor Salt opouští město 1 exemplaar
L`Homme et le temps 1 exemplaar
Teatro 1 exemplaar
Three Men in New Suits 1 exemplaar
Novels of Thomas Love Peacock 1 exemplaar
The Demon King 1 exemplaar
festival 1 exemplaar
Seeing Stratford 1 exemplaar
Jenny Villers - A Story of the Theatre 1 exemplaar
H. G. Wells : obituary 1 exemplaar
Underground 1 exemplaar
Treasure of the pelican 1 exemplaar
Angel Pavement | The Doomsday Men 1 exemplaar
The Moments 1 exemplaar
LOS HOMBRES DEL JUICIO FINAL 1 exemplaar
Võlurid : [romaan] 1 exemplaar
Dickens 1 exemplaar
Bright shadow, a play of detection in three acts 1 exemplaar
The Leadington Incident 1 exemplaar
Going up. Stories and sketches 1 exemplaar
[Obras] 1 exemplaar
La isla lejana 1 exemplaar
Papers From Lilliput: A collection of essays 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Priestley, John Boynton
- Geboortedatum
- 1894-09-13
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1984-08-14
- Graflocatie
- Parish church, Hubberholme, North Yorkshire, England
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- England, UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- pneumonia
- Woonplaatsen
- Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Opleiding
- University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall)
University of Bradford
Belle Vue Grammar School - Beroepen
- playwright
broadcaster
essayist
novelist
journalist - Relaties
- Tempest, Emily "Pat" (married 1921-1925 [her death])
Wyndham-Lewis, Jane (married 1926-1953)
Hawkes, Jacquetta (married 1953-1984 [his death]))
Collins, Diana (friend) - Organisaties
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Common Wealth Party
British Army (WWI) - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Order of Merit (1977)
Peerage (1965) [declined]
Companion of Honour (1969) [declined]
Freedom of the City of Bradford (England ∙ UK ∙ 1973)
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 224
- Ook door
- 62
- Leden
- 5,993
- Populariteit
- #4,110
- Waardering
- 4.2
- Besprekingen
- 96
- ISBNs
- 381
- Talen
- 12
- Favoriet
- 11