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View Larger Image. Priestley's most famous novel, from the leather-bound edition. A smart copy of J. Priestley's most well-known novel,The Good Companions. This novel follows a concert party through different areas of the English countryside. It is written in a picaresque style, with main character Jess Oakroyd as the rouge-ish hero searching for adventure on the road.

The good companions priestley

Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. The Good Companions. Probably the most popular of Priestley's novels, The Good Companions was an instant best-seller when it was first published in July , and, while JBP came to feel its success subsequently overshadowed many more important works, the book has remained popular. It was his third novel and it is certainly well-written and very readable. It is, too, an enjoyable romp, all about a stranded theatrical group the Dinky Doos rescued by Miss Trant and coverted into the Good Companions, and involving their adventures with such characters as Jess Oakroyd, the middle-aged joiner from Bruddersford, who breaks free from his miserable domestic existence, Susie Dean and Inigo Jollifant. Loading interface About the author. Priestley books followers. John Boynton Priestley, the son of a schoolmaster, was born in Bradford in September , and after schooling he worked for a time in the local wool trade. Following the outbreak of the Great War in , Priestley joined the British Army, and was sent to France --in taking part in the Battle of Loos. After being wounded in Priestley returned to England for six months; then, after going back to the Western Front he suffered the consequences of a German gas attack, and, treated at Rouen, he was declared unfit for active service and was transferred to the Entertainers Section of the British Army. Subsequently he found work as theatre reviewer with the Daily News, and also contributed to the Spectator, the Challenge and Nineteenth Century.

I got the feeling that he probably enjoyed writing this novel as much as I enjoyed reading it! What is most surprising about The Good Companions is its lightness of tone. Free endpapers partially tanned.

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Yet it has its darker moments, to remind the reader that England in the late s was far from being a place merely for theatrical jollities. The Good Companions is almost unique in the number and variety of the adaptations that have been made of it. Edward Knoblock and the author himself re-fashioned it for the stage in It was first filmed in and then, as a full-blown, Hollywood-style musical, in There have been no fewer than three stage musicals, by far the most notable being that with a book by Ronald Harwood, music by Andre Previn and lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

The good companions priestley

Jump to ratings and reviews. Want to read. Rate this book. The Good Companions. Probably the most popular of Priestley's novels, The Good Companions was an instant best-seller when it was first published in July , and, while JBP came to feel its success subsequently overshadowed many more important works, the book has remained popular. It was his third novel and it is certainly well-written and very readable. It is, too, an enjoyable romp, all about a stranded theatrical group the Dinky Doos rescued by Miss Trant and coverted into the Good Companions, and involving their adventures with such characters as Jess Oakroyd, the middle-aged joiner from Bruddersford, who breaks free from his miserable domestic existence, Susie Dean and Inigo Jollifant. Loading interface About the author. Priestley books followers.

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William Heinemann Ltd. Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Use dmy dates from November Template film date with 1 release date All stub articles. I tried a few years ago but didn't get very far, but this time I made it. Published by William Heinemann Ltd, London, His breakthrough came with the immensely popular novel The Good Companions, published in , and Angel Pavement followed in A slightly dated charmer featuring an oddball group of travelling theatrical types in s England, that I'm really surprised I never heard of before my goodreads friend Kathy brought it to my attention. A smart copy of J. Probably the most popular of Priestley's novels, The Good Companions was an instant best-seller when it was first published in July , and, while JBP came to feel its success subsequently overshadowed many more important works, the book has remained popular. Not Stated illustrator. This time, it felt like a historical novel. There are parts of the novel which are very Sillitoe as he writes about terraced house working class Yorkshire. If he were writing today much of it — like the charming paragraph about how to make Yorkshire Pudding - would probably be edited out in order to keep the pace moving. This story filled a literary need I didn't know I had.

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But the focus on three main characters, Trant, Jollifant, and Oakroyd is something of an innovation for me. Priestley books followers. It probably helps to be able to decipher Yorkshire and cockney accents, but once you can do that, it's as full of good things as a plum pudding hmmm Adrian Buck. Priestley, all with frontispiece illustration and blue ribbon bookmark First Edition thus , all slightly marked and a few spines are skewed, Festival At Farbridge; foxed edges, ribbon bookmark frayed at bottom, and small green ink stain at bottom edge of pages , Bright Day; fading on front board, ribbon bookmark frayed and tanned at edge, Faraway; ribbon bookmark frayed and tanned at end, generally all books are in very good condition , all bound in blue faux leather, with gilt pattern on front board and spine with gilt titles on spine, gilt illustrated endpapers, ribbons , From United Kingdom to U. Very Good. We now post only via DHL as weight for weight it is a very similar cost to recorded mail, but is fully tracked and much more reliable. Why not one about my own England of the s? That added to my enjoyment of reading this. His favourite among his books was for many years the novel Bright Day, though he later said he had come to prefer The Image Men. Not all fondly-remembered books bear rereading, after all.