Benighted

Benighted PDF Author: John Boynton Priestley
Publisher: London, W. Heinemann Limited
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Benighted

Benighted PDF Author: John Boynton Priestley
Publisher: London, W. Heinemann Limited
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Daylight on Saturday. A Novel about an Aircraft Factory

Daylight on Saturday. A Novel about an Aircraft Factory PDF Author: John Boynton Priestley
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Benighted

Benighted PDF Author: J. B. Priestley
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504083725
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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In this classic novel of psychological terror, an unrelenting storm forces three travelers to take shelter in a sinister mansion. A powerful storm rages through the Welsh mountains, driving three travelers off the road. Philip Waverton, his wife, Margaret, and their friend Roger Penderel are desperate to get out of the torrential downpour. Their only option is a mysterious old mansion, home to the bizarre Femm family and their brutish butler, Morgan. Although the Femms have plenty rooms in their home, they are hesitant to allow guests to stay in them. Instead, Penderel and the Wavertons must settle in for the night by the ground-floor fireplace and hope the storm will pass by morning. But as the hours go by, their situation only gets worse. The storm intensifies, and the dark house begins revealing its secrets—like what lies behind the two locked doors on the top floor. Now the travelers can only pray they survive until morning . . . Published in 1927, Benighted served as the basis for the 1932 James Whale film The Old Dark House, starring Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, and Gloria Stuart. It was J. B. Priestly’s second novel. “Priestley’s book is a beautifully written affair, oftentimes thrilling and touching, that this reader found perfect company during a few recent stormy days in late October. . . . The novel will surely manage to chill the modern-day reader.” —Fantasy Literature

The Thirty-first of June

The Thirty-first of June PDF Author: John Boynton Priestley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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The medieval and modern world collide, when an enchantor named Malgrim gives Princess Melicent of Camelot a magic mirror in which she can see the face of anyone who thinks of her. Meanwhile, in the twentieth century, Sam Penty, dreaming up a new campaign for his ad agency's stocking account, thinks of using an illustration of an Arthurian princess.

Angel Pavement

Angel Pavement PDF Author: John Boynton Priestley
Publisher: Great Northern
ISBN: 9781905080274
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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'Angel Pavement' provides readers with a vivid picture of London life before the war and the Blitz changed everything dramatically. Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the story centres around the arrival of a mysterious Mr. Golspie at Twigg & Dersingham from the Baltic region.

The Good Companions

The Good Companions PDF Author: Edward Koblock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780573111976
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Lost Empires

Lost Empires PDF Author: John Boynton Priestley
Publisher: Great Northern
ISBN: 9781905080373
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Set in the last yers of the England that vanished for ever after World War I, it tells the story of Richard Herncastle, an aspiring painter who travels the now-vanished music halls with his Uncle Nick, the half-lovable, half-monster, master illusionist. As they move between dingy lodging houses and decaying variety stages, Richard becomes caught in a triangle of love, temptation and sexual adventure."-- p. [4] of cover.

Priestley's England

Priestley's England PDF Author: John Baxendale
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719072864
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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"Priestley's England is the first full-length academic study of J.B Priestley - novelist, playwright, screen-writer, journalist and broadcaster, political activist, public intellectual and popular entertainer, one of the makers of twentieth-century Britain, and one of its sharpest critics." "This book will appeal to all those interested in the culture and politics of twentieth-century Britain, in the continuing debates over 'Englishness' to which Priestley made such a key contribution, and in the life and work of one of the most remarkable and popular writers of the past century."--Jacket.

An Inspector Calls and Other Plays

An Inspector Calls and Other Plays PDF Author: J. B. Priestley
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014118535X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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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 household.

Bright Day (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Bright Day (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) PDF Author: J B Priestley
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ISBN: 9781948405379
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Gregory Dawson, a middle-aged and disillusioned writer, is holed up in a Cornish hotel working on a film script he must finish. A chance encounter with an old acquaintance in the bar sends him back to the England of 1913, when he was just eighteen and longed to enter the seemingly magical world of the glamorous Alington family and its three lovely daughters. Replaying the events of those days in his mind, Dawson relives a long-forgotten story that ended with a mysterious tragedy whose effects linger on in the present and threaten to shatter his placid existence ... In the vein of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, J. B. Priestley's Bright Day (1946) is one of his finest works and his own favorite of his novels, a haunting and unforgettable evocation of a vanished England as yet unravaged by the devastation of two world wars. "One of the best of J. B. Priestley's novels . . . provides an opportunity to revalue a writer not merely hugely popular in his own day but also, with more than 100 titles to his credit, hugely prolific." - Francis King, The Spectator "A glow of the magic of poignant rediscovery." - Kirkus Reviews "I do not think Priestley has ever written anything better than this book." - News Chronicle