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Priestley’s England
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. The book explores the cultural, literary and political history of twentieth-century Britain through the themes which preoccupied Priestley throughout his life: competing versions of Englishness; tradition, modernity, and the decline of industrial England; ‘Americanisation’, mass culture and ‘Admass’; cultural values and ‘broadbrow’ culture; consumerism and the decay of the public sphere; the...
An Inspector Calls
The members of an eminently respectable British family reveal their true natures over the course of an evening in which they are subjected to a routine inquiry into the suicide of a young girl.
J. B. Priestley
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The Thirty-first of June
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.
J. B. Priestley
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