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  • Benighted
    J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley
    A dark night in the Welsh countryside. A group of stranded travelers seeking refuge from a storm. An isolated house offering shelter, but concealing a terrifying secret. J.B. Priestley’s 'Benighted' masterfully blends suspense and horror in this gripping tale.As the storm rages outside, tensions rise within the ancient walls. Each guest harbors their own anxieties, but a shared...
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    20,09 €

  • Benighted
    J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley
    A dark night in the Welsh countryside. A group of stranded travelers seeking refuge from a storm. An isolated house offering shelter, but concealing a terrifying secret. J.B. Priestley’s 'Benighted' masterfully blends suspense and horror in this gripping tale.As the storm rages outside, tensions rise within the ancient walls. Each guest harbors their own anxieties, but a shared...
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    33,73 €

  • Papers from Lilliput
    J. B. Priestley
    Papers from Lilliput, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans of the authors’ or...
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    22,86 €

  • Benighted
    J. B. Priestley
    An immersive novel, Benighted easily captures the reader’s attention with both psychological insight and dark humor. Forces of nature drive five travelers to a crumbling mansion to wait out a storm. The residents of the mansion are far from welcoming, and their manners are ominous. The stranded 'guests' begin the long evening getting familiar with each other through conversatio...
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    16,42 €

  • Benighted
    J. B. Priestley
    An immersive novel, Benighted easily captures the reader’s attention with both psychological insight and dark humor. Forces of nature drive five travelers to a crumbling mansion to wait out a storm. The residents of the mansion are far from welcoming, and their manners are ominous. The stranded 'guests' begin the long evening getting familiar with each other through conversatio...
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    28,36 €

  • Blackout in Gretley (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
    J. B. Priestley / JBPriestley
    Humphrey Neyland is a middle-aged Canadian engineer recruited by British Intelligence to go undercover in the industrial city of Gretley, where aircraft essential to the war effort are being produced and where it is feared Nazi agents and saboteurs are lurking. Almost everyone he meets in Gretley seems to have a double life and a secret agenda, and it doesn’t take long before N...
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    25,40 €

  • Jenny Villiers
    J. B. Priestley / JBPriestley
    Once passionate about the theatre, playwright Martin Cheveril is now disillusioned and contemplating a change of career. His new play, a bitter and cynical piece, is about to premiere when something strange happens. After stumbling upon an old pamphlet about a talented young actress named Jenny Villiers who died in 1846, Cheveril dozes off and finds himself somehow transported ...
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    22,96 €

  • Bright Day (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
    J. B. Priestley / JBPriestley
    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 longed to enter the seemingly magical world of the glamorous Alington family and its three lovely daughters. Replaying the event...
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    24,96 €

  • Try It Again
    J B Priestley / J.B. Priestley / J.BPriestley
    In the drawing room of a house in the country three women are arguing over a man. The man is Colin, and the argument is heated, for one of the women is his mother, another his wife Clare, and the third his mistress Helen. All four allow their tempers to get out of control, and painful truths are told. Colin, a weak man, is on the point of leaving when there is an unexpected int...
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    13,90 €

  • BRIGHT SHADOW
    J.B. Priestley
    The retired Colonel, his niece Lesley, and his friend the Major - a retired army medical officer - are living, to all intents and purposes, a happy, quiet life together in the Colonel's country home. The play opens as they are having tea with a close friend of the Colonel's daughter, Diana, who died apparently from an overdose of drugs three years previously. The Colone...
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    18,61 €

  • DESERT HIGHWAY
    J.B. Priestley
    During a campaign in the Middle East, six men are lost in the Syrian desert, owing to the breakdown of their tank. They are Ben Joseph, the thoughtful Jewish sergeant; Donnington, a university man and a cynic; the Cockney, Elvin, an old soldier; Shaw, a solemn Yorkshireman; Hughes, an excitable Welshman; and young George, from a farm. A German plane spots them and sprays them w...
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    18,48 €

  • A Glass of Bitter
    J B Priestley / J.B. Priestley / J.BPriestley
    A quiet, domesticated couple, Fred and Norah, live in a London suburb. They have married later in life than most people and are devoted to one another. It is Fred’s practice to go out for a glass of bitter in the evenings and on this particular occasion, while he is away, Norah has a visitor - a flash-looking young woman, Evie and Norah is faced with a decision difficult to mak...
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    13,87 €

  • Private Rooms
    J B Priestley / J.B. Priestley / J.BPriestley
    A one act comedy in the Viennese style. The scene shows two private rooms in a restaurnat in a Central European capital about the year 1900. In one, a vain but ageing actor, Max, who still believes he can dazzle a pretty young dancer, hopes to make love to the innocent and romantic Elsa. In the other, Julia, an older glamorous actress is entertaining a young playwright, Florian...
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    14,00 €

  • Ever Since Paradise
    J B Priestley / J.B. Priestley / J.BPriestley
    Ever Since Paradise he described as ’A Discursive Entertainment, chiefly referring to Love and Marriage in Three Acts’. Three couples are made up of the Musicians, the Commentators and the Example, and together they illustrate various aspects of relationships, accompanied by appropriate music on two pianos.-3 women, 3 men ...
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    18,88 €

  • The Scandalous Affair of MR Kettle and Mrs Moon
    J B Priestley / J.B. Priestley / J.BPriestley
    On his way to work at the bank one morning, the manager Mr Kettle freaks out. He goes back home changes into his casual clothes and sets about enjoying himself. No one apart from Mrs Kettle can understand him and why he is behaving in this way. Mrs Kettle joins him in his rebellion. The bank officials employ a doctor to hypnotise Mr Kettle and get him back to his former self.-3...
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    18,51 €

  • Mother’s Day
    J B Priestley / J.B. Priestley / J.BPriestley
    A humorous portrayal of how mothers are treated in a family. It was first performed as a play in 1953. 3 women, 2 men ...
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    13,87 €

  • Eden End
    J B Priestley / J.B. Priestley / J.BPriestley
    Stella Kirby spent nine years running away; leaving home to find her freedom as an actress. Now she has decided that the only role left to play is the prodigal daughter returned, hoping to discover herself in the familiar surroundings of her childhood home.-3 women, 4 men ...
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    18,61 €

  • Cornelius
    J B Priestley / J.B. Priestley / J.BPriestley
    As bankrupcy looms, the ever-optimistic Jim Cornelius, partner at import firm briggs and Murrison, is fighting to keep his creditors happy and his spirits up. Tensions rise with the arrival of Judy, the beautiful, young typist who shows Cornelius the life he could have led... Written for Ralph Richardson in 1935, Priestley observes the politics and tensions of daily office life...
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    18,64 €

  • The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories, Volume Three
    Charles Beaumont / J. B. Priestley / James Purdy / JBPriestley
    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 Valancourt Books have selected fifteen tales (and one macabre poem) – all by Valancourt authors – for this new collection featuri...
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    34,09 €

  • The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories, Volume Three
    Charles Beaumont / J. B. Priestley / James Purdy / JBPriestley
    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 Valancourt Books have selected fifteen tales (and one macabre poem) – all by Valancourt authors – for this new collection featuri...
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    25,24 €

  • The Long Mirror
    J B Priestley / J.B. Priestley / J.BPriestley
    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 as an artist and a husband. It was based on a true incident. ...
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    18,54 €

  • I for One
    J B. 1894-1984 Priestley / J B1894-1984 Priestley
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important ...
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    21,82 €

  • The Rose and Crown
    J B Priestley / J.B. Priestley / J.BPriestley
    This is the first of Priestley’s published one-act plays and originated as a specially written television play for the BBC. It was transmitted from Alexandra Palace first on 27 August, 1946; Priestley went on to adapt it for the stage in 1947. The setting is the public bar of The Rose and Crown, a small pub in North-East London, one evening in early autumn. Into the bar comes a...
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    13,96 €

  • The Roundabout
    J. B. Priestley
    The Kettlewells are a dysfunctional family. Richard is a charming old Etonian whose business ventures are failing. Over a crowded weekend, his daughter Pamela, whom he hardly knows, returns from Russia, a passionate communist; his ex-wife and mistress both unexpectedly arrive; and his butler has a big win at the races.The Roundabout is a funny, touching, highly perceptive look ...
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    19,05 €

  • The Good Companions
    Edward Koblock / J. B. Priestley / JBPriestley
    The Good Companions focuses on the trials and tribulations of a concert party between the World Wars. It was arguably Priestley’s most famous novel, written in 1929, and the work which established him as a national figure. This 1931 stage adaptation was dramatized jointly by Edward Knoblock and the author in 1931.-3 women, 7 men ...
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    18,96 €

  • Dangerous Corner
    J B Priestley / J.B Priestley
    Robert Caplan and his wife are entertaining her brother and sister-in-law. Because Robert insists on uncovering the truth about his brother Martin’s ’suicide’, many unpalatable revelations ensue which cause Robert to shoot himself. At this point, the opening scene is repeated, but this time they bypass the dangerous corner at which the truth is demanded, thus averting the disas...
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    19,04 €

  • A Severed Head
    Iris Murdoch / J. B. Priestley / JBPriestley
    JB Priestley’s adaptation of Iris Murdoch’s A Severed Head.4 women, 3 men ...
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    18,63 €

  • Laburnum Grove
    J B Priestley / J. B. Priestley / JBPriestley
    George Radfern lives a quiet, uneventful life near London, burdened by sponging relatives and his prospective son-in-law. When George quietly announces he’s a leader of a counterfeit ring, the sponges find reasons to leave. His immediate family reacts according to character until it looks as if George has been spoofing them. The ending is one of the most surprising ones ever us...
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    18,66 €

  • I Have Been Here Before
    J B Priestley / J.B. Priestley / J.BPriestley
    A British wife, her elderly husband and her lover meet a German professor at an Inn in Yorkshire. His probing questions reveal that they are unhappy and confused. They have played out their scene many times, always ending in suicide and poverty. The professor warns them that they must now break the pattern.2 women, 4 men ...
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    18,64 €

  • The Magicians
    J. B. Priestley / JBPriestley
    'Beautifully composed and splendidly written, it has great power and real point ... the command of the contemporary scene is masterly.... One of the best characters that have appeared in fiction for a very long time.' - Walter Allen, New Statesman'[T]he story is novel in its incidents and he exploits skilfully the dramatic possibilities of extending human vision into normally h...
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    21,50 €


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