Priestley 0747535086

Biography of English author/playwright/social commentator/broadcaster J.B. Priestley (1894-1984). First published 1997,

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Table of contents :
Priestley - Front Cover
Title Page
Printer's Imprint
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Beginnings and Childhood
2. Growing Up
3. The Swan Arcadian
4. Into Print
5. Into the Inferno
6. Flowers From Dead Men
7. Brief Diversions
8. Dark Hours
9. Jane
10. Picking Up the Pieces
11. Mr Walpole and Dear Old Jack
12. Fame
13. ‘Oh she doth teach the torches to burn bright...’
14. Time and the Dramatist
15. An English Journey
16. Theatre, Hollywood and Arizona
[photoplates 1-8]
17. Aspects of Time
18. America Again
19. The Dogs of War
20. Postscripts
21. Through the War
22. Post-War
23. Jacquetta
24. The Tangled Web
25. Endings
26. Journey Down a Rainbow
27. Banning the Bomb
28. Into the Sixties
29. Order of Merit
30. A Dream of Birds
Bibliography and Chronology
Notes
Index
Rear Cover

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