J. B. Priestley

J. B. Priestley
Biografske informacije
Rođenje(1894-09-13)13. 9. 1894.
Manningham, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, Engleska, UK
Smrt14. 8. 1984. (dob: 89)
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, Engleska, UK
Nacionalnostbritanska
Obrazovanje
Zanimanjeknjiževnik, publicist
Opus
20. vijek
Književne vrstekriminalistički, novinske kolumne
Jezikengleski
Web-stranica
www.jbpriestley.co.uk

John Boynton "J. B." Priestley, OM (/ˈpriːstli/; 13. septembar 1894 – 14. august 1984) bio je engleski književnik, publicist i radio-komentator. Najpoznatiji je kao autor vatrenih propagandnih govora na radiju tokom bitke za Britaniju, a za koje se smatra da su značajno digli moral britanske javnosti u najkritičnijem trenutku Drugog svjetskog rata. Njegove ljevičarske socijalističke ideje, odnosno zalaganje za sistem države blagostanja su ga potakle da 1942. godine stane na čelo kratkotrajne Stranke zajedničkog bogatstva u službenoj opoziciji Churchillovoj ratnoj vladi.

Bibliografija

Novels

  • Adam in Moonshine. (1927)
  • Benighted (1928) (ekraniziran kao [[The Old Dark
  • The Good Companions (1929)
  • Angel Pavement (1930)
  • Faraway (1932)
  • Wonder Hero (1933)
  • They Walk in the City (1936)
  • The Doomsday Men (1937)
  • Let the People Sing
  • Out of the People (1941)
  • Blackout in Gretley (1942)
  • Daylight on Saturday (1943)
  • Three Men in New Suits (1945)
  • Bright Day (1946)
  • Jenny Villiers (1947)
  • Festival at Farbridge (1951)
  • Low Notes on a High Level (1954)
  • The Magicians
  • Saturn over the Water (1961)
  • The Thirty-First of June (1961)
  • Salt Is Leaving (1961)
  • The Shapes of Sleep (1962)
  • Sir Michael and Sir George (1964)
  • Lost Empires (1965)
  • It's an Old Country (1967)
  • The Image Men Vol. 1: Out of Town (1968)
  • The Image Men Vol. 2: London End (1968)

Ostala proza

  • Farthing Hall (1929) (roman; ko-autor: Hugh Walpole)
  • The Town Major of Miraucourt (1930) (zbirka priča)
  • I'll Tell You Everything (1932) (roman; ko-autor_ Gerald Bullett)
  • Albert Goes Through (1933) (pripovjetka)
  • The Other Place (1952) (zbirka priča)
  • Snoggle (1971) (roman za djecu)
  • The Other Window (1975) (scenario za TV-seriju Shadows; ko-autor: Jacquetta Hawkes)
  • The Carfitt Crisis (1975) (dvije pripovjetke i priča)

Izabrane drame

  • Dangerous Corner (1932)
  • Laburnum Grove (1933)
  • Eden End (1934)
  • Cornelius (1935)
  • Time and the Conways (1937)
  • I Have Been Here Before (1937)
  • When We Are Married (1938)
  • Johnson Over Jordan (1939)
  • The Long Mirror (1940)
  • They Came to a City (1943)
  • An Inspector Calls (1945)
  • The Linden Tree (1947)
  • Mother's Day (1950)
  • Last Holiday (1950, sinopsis, scenario i producent istoimenog filma)
  • The Thirty-first of June: A Tale of True Love, Enterprise and Progress in the Arthurian and AD-Atomic Ages
  • Benighted (2016, adaptacija istoimenog romana; autor: Duncan Gates.)

Televizijska dejla

  • Armchair Theatre: Now Let Him Go (ABC – 15. septembar 957)
  • Doomsday for Dyson (Granada – 10., mart 1958)
  • Out of the Unknown: Level Seven (BBC2 – 27. oktobar 1966, adaptacija priče Mordecaija Roshwalda)
  • Shadows: The Other Window (Thames – 15. oktobar 1975, ko-autor: Jacquetta Hawkes)

Književna kritika

  • The English Comic Characters (1925)
  • The English Novel (1927)
  • Literature and Western Man (1960)
  • Charles Dickens and his world (1969)

Društvena i politička djela

  • English Journey (1934)
  • Out of the people (1941)
  • The Secret Dream: an essay on Britain, America and Russia (1946)
  • The Arts under Socialism (1947)
  • The Prince of Pleasure and his Regency (1969)
  • The Edwardians (1970)
  • The English (1973)

Autobiografija i eseji

  • Essays of To-day and Yesterday (1926)
  • Midnight on the Desert (1937)
  • Rain Upon Godshill: A Further Chapter of Autobiography (1939)
  • Journey Down a Rainbow (1955)
  • Margin Released (1962)
  • The Moments and Other Pieces (1966)
  • Instead of the Trees (1977)

Povezano

  • An Experiment with Time
  • CND
  • J. B. Priestley's Time Plays
  • J. W. Dunne
  • Mary Priestley
  • Time and the Conways

Napomene

Literatura

Vanjske veze

Političke funkcije
Prethodi:
New post
predsjednik Stranke zajedničkog bogatstva
1942
Slijedi:
Richard Acland