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 daughter returned, hoping to discover herself in the familiar surroundings of her childhood home.
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 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 We Are Married, Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon and Laburnum Grove.
The widely performed and prolific Priestley experimented with many forms in his long career as a playwright, moving adeptly from expressionism to f...
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. Madge wants to reform the world and marry the dashing young family lawyer. Carol, the baby of the family, spreads good cheer while Robin, back from war, is certain to have a good career. Alan is content to be an armchair philosopher. The nitwit mother has high hopes for them all. At the party Kay, with frightening clarity, sees her family twenty years in the future. They are petty, mean, and unfulfilled. Only Kay...
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The Conways are having a party to celebrate Kay's twenty first birthday. Kay hopes to be a novelist. Hazel, the beauty, ...
-I spent more than half my life, when I ought to have been enjoying myself, arguing and planning and running around like a maniac, all to sell a lot of things to people I didn't know, so that I could buy a lot of things that I didn't have time to use. Sheer lunacy. And it took nothing less than an atom bomb to blow me out of it.- Following a devastating nuclear war which has seen Britain bombed back into the pre-industrial past, Stephen Dawlish and his family live a quiet rural life. Until their quiet, agrarian existence is disrupted by the appearance of three representatives of...
-I spent more than half my life, when I ought to have been enjoying myself, arguing and planning and running around like a maniac, all to sell a lo...
"Beautifully composed and splendidly written, it has great power and real point ... the command of the contemporary scene is masterly.... One of the best characters that have appeared in fiction for a very long time." - Walter Allen, New Statesman
"[T]he story is novel in its incidents and he exploits skilfully the dramatic possibilities of extending human vision into normally hidden dimensions." - The Guardian
"Mr. Priestley has always been a man of vision ... The Magicians has a theme of the first importance." - Spectator
Sir Charles...
"Beautifully composed and splendidly written, it has great power and real point ... the command of the contemporary scene is masterly.... One of the b...
Written with tremendous pace and panache. It sweeps you along in excitement. John Buchan, Ray Bradbury, science fiction or suspense - it is all the same to Mr Priestley. He takes on a dozen writers and shows himself a match for them all. - The Times
[O]ne of the finest novels I have read for some time ... I found Mr Priestleys book utterly convincing ... the settings are so well observed whether they be in London, New York, South America, or Australia. Mr Priestley, indeed, takes us on a Cooks tour of the world and a very knowledgeable guide he turns out to be ... the book is...
Written with tremendous pace and panache. It sweeps you along in excitement. John Buchan, Ray Bradbury, science fiction or suspense - it is all the sa...
' A] formidable exercise, distinguished by Priestley's undiminished gusto for storytelling.' - "New York Times Book Review" ' A] most satisfactory suspense story. It has the advantage of being different and witty and full of the kind of observation that will delight many.' - "Best Sellers" ' A] cosy, old-fashioned detective story.' - Francis Iles, "Guardian" ' C]omfortably old-fashioned novels are hard to come by these days. Good old Priestley has written a good old book.' - "The Critic" ' T]his is an enjoyable story, with plenty of moral social comment.' - "Times Literary...
' A] formidable exercise, distinguished by Priestley's undiminished gusto for storytelling.' - "New York Times Book Review" ' A] most satisfactor...
"This is a story in Mr. Priestleys best vein, and he uses all the arts of suspense, all the twists and turns of fate, as well as his own cheerful and kindly reading of the human heart to make it so. It is really true that you cannot put the book down till you finish it, and you do that with a sigh." - The Observer
"[T]he most completely unified novel that Mr. Priestley has written . . . an exciting tale for holiday reading. The novel is, in short, something like a masterpiece ... would do credit to any novelist." - Manchester Guardian
"Mr. Priestley is in...
"This is a story in Mr. Priestleys best vein, and he uses all the arts of suspense, all the twists and turns of fate, as well as his own cheerful and ...
Just before dawn the plays characters - who represent every stratum of society - come to the wall overlooking a strange city whose gate is shut against them. At daybreak they are admitted and towards the end of the day some have found it to be the ideal earth has never achieved. So that everyone may know of this attainable perfection two of them make the sacrifice of leaving the city to return to their sinful world. Contained in the volume Priestley Plays II.
Just before dawn the plays characters - who represent every stratum of society - come to the wall overlooking a strange city whose gate is shut agains...
