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...
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...
The Long Mirror recounts the meeting between a composer and a young woman who seems to have been telepathically connected to him for some time, and has experienced much of his life before actually meeting him. Her knowledge of his past can help his future...
Arthur Birling, a prosperous manufacturer, is holding a family dinner party to celebrate his daughter's engagement. Into this cosy scene intrudes the harsh figure of a police inspector investigating the suicide of a young working-class woman. Under...
Originally published in 1925, this book contains the edited diary of Tom Moore, the Irish songwriter and close friend of Lord Byron. Priestley's selection of Moore's diary entries focuses mostly on Moore's golden period prior to his decline...
The 31st of June is a comedy set partly in an advertising agency and partly in a medieval castle; Jenny Villiers is a serious play set backstage in an old provincial theatre. But both exploit elements of Time. In the 31st of June scenes switch between...
A policeman interrupts a rich family's dinner to question them about the suicide of a young working-class girl. As their guilty secrets are gradually revealed over the course of the evening, 'An Inspector Calls', J. B. Priestley's most...