La obra de J. B. Priestley, prolífico dramaturgo, novelista, crítico y ensayista inglés, nos adentra en la vida de una familia adinerada de Yorkshire, los Conway, durante el periodo de entreguerras. Es en 1919 y la Kay, una de las...
L?arribada misteriosa del doctor Görtler en una pensió rural del nord d?Anglaterra trastoca l?aparent harmonia del lloc i pertorba tots els personatges, que comencen a tenir la sensació que allò ja ho han viscut anteriorment....
This book provides a rigorous examination into the causes and effects of the abolishment of probation within the justice system. Addressing a wide range of subjects, such as current and historical perceptions of probation, the political factors which brou...
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...
Since 2005, Valancourt Books has earned a reputation as one of the foremost publishers of lost and rediscovered classics, reissuing more than 400 unjustly neglected works from the past 250 years. In this third volume of horror stories, the editors of Vala...
J. B. Priestley (1894-1984) was a versatile and prolific novelist and playwright, but in The Other Place (1953) he shows an unexpected talent, proving himself a master of the weird tale. In The Grey Ones, a man visits a psychiatrist after he becomes convi...
"This is a story in Mr. Priestleyâs best vein, and he uses all the arts of suspense, all the twists and turns of fate, as well as his own cheerful and kindly reading of the human heart to make it so. It is really true that you cannot...
âSplendid . . this absorbing topical tale . . has the master stamp . . in pace, ingenuity, coherence, it is completely assured, and with the special Priestley slant of wry observation.â - Evening Standard
âWritten with tremendous pace and panache. It sweeps you along in excitement. John Buchan, Ray Bradbury, science fiction or suspense - it is all the same to Mr Priestley. He takes on a dozen writers and shows himself a match for them...