Download or read book Benighted written by John Boynton Priestley and published by London, W. Heinemann Limited. This book was released on 1927 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Benighted written by J. B. Priestley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book Priestley s England written by John Baxendale and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Download or read book Snoggle written by John Boynton Priestley and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1972 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three English children befriend a strange creature from outer space and try to protect it from the aroused community.

Download or read book The Good Companions written by Edward Koblock and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Inspector Calls and Other Plays written by J. B. Priestley and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001-03-29 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book What a Life written by John Boynton Priestley and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A colection of short stories from the pen of J.B. Priestley.

Download or read book Angel Pavement written by John Boynton Priestley and published by Great Northern. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.

Download or read book The Thirty first of June written by John Boynton Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book An Inspector Calls written by Jason Cobley and published by Classical Comics: Original Tex. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic novel that features the entire script of Priestley's 1945 play. The Birling family are spending a happy evening celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling to Gerald Croft - a marriage that will result in the merging of two successful local businesses. Yet, just when everything seems to be going so well, they receive a surprise visit from an Inspector Goole who is investigating the suicide of a young girl. As the Inspector reveals more about the circumstances that led to the death of Eva Smith, each member of the family comes under the spotlight, and questions of guilt and responsibility are raised.

Download or read book An Inspector Calls written by John Boynton Priestley and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1972 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Thirty First of June written by J. B. Priestley and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthurian characters from the medieval world and the personnel of a modern advertising agency switch back and forth in a burlesque involving magic mirrors and television.

Download or read book Jenny Villiers written by John Boynton Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of the theater and of a playwright who dreams of a once actress.

Download or read book Victoria s Heyday written by John Boynton Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1850s were not only the central and most characteristic decade in the Victorian era but also the time when Victoria and Albert were happiest and most popular with their people. In this beautifully illustrated companion volume to The Prince of Pleasure and The Edwardians Mr. Priestley surveys the social, political, industrial, religious, literary and artistic life of this decade.

Download or read book Priestley s Wars written by John Boynton Priestley and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical work traces the personal odyssey of one of Britain's greatest and best-loved literary figures, J.B. Priestley. It tells the full story of one of the literary giants of the 20th century, and his role in the military conflict and social change that defined the 'Great War to Cold War' era.

Download or read book Bright Day Valancourt 20th Century Classics written by J B Priestley and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book The Doomsday Men written by J. B. Priestley and published by . This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three men, each on a separate mission, converge in the California desert. The discover their situations are intertwined and join forces to unravel their mysteries. The trail of clues leads to an explosive conclusion!