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  • 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 €

  • 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 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • They Came To A City
    J B Priestley / J. B. Priestley / JBPriestley
    Just before dawn the play’s characters - who represent every stratum of society - come to the wall overlooking a strange city whose gate is shut against them. At daybreak they are admitted and towards the end of the day some have found it to be the ideal earth has never achieved. So that everyone may know of this attainable perfection two of them make the sacrifice of leaving t...
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    19,05 €

  • When We Are Married
    J B Priestley / J. B. Priestley / JBPriestley
    Twenty-five years ago, the Helliwells, the Parkers and the Soppitts were married on the same day by the same parson. They gather at the Helliwell home to celebrate their silver wedding. The new chapel organist tells them that he recently met the parson who conducted the triple wedding ceremony - he was not authorised to do so. Pandemonium breaks out when these pillars of societ...
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    20,36 €