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Essays and criticism on J. B. Priestley, including the works The Good Companions, Dangerous Corner, An Inspector Calls - Magill's Survey of World Literature.
His next work, Papers from Lilliput, was based on a series of essays on famous personalities. This made him an influential commentator on literature after he published his critical writings such as The English Novel , The English Comic Characters, and English Humour.
In 1960 Priestley published Literature and Western Man, a 500-page survey of Western literature in all its genres from the second half of the 15th century to the middle of the 20th century. (The last author discussed was Thomas Wolfe .)
Essays and criticism on J. B. Priestley, including the works The Good Companions, Angel Pavement, Bright Day, Lost Empires - Critical Survey of Long Fiction.
J. B. Priestley’s plays may be his most lasting contribution to literature, yet as a consummate man of letters, he mastered many genres in a canon consisting of nearly two hundred works.
3 days ago · J. B. Priestley was a British novelist, playwright, and essayist, noted for his varied output and his ability for shrewd characterization. Priestley served in the infantry in World War I (1914–19) and then studied English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1922).
A concise biography of J. B. Priestley plus historical and literary context for An Inspector Calls.
