Bright Day (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Bright Day (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) - Paperback

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Bright Day (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) - Paperback

Bright Day (Valancourt 20th Century Classics) - Paperback

by J. B. Priestley
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by J. B. Priestley (Author), Alice Ferrebe (Introduction by)

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 events of those days in his mind, Dawson relives a long-forgotten story that ended with a mysterious tragedy whose effects linger on in the present and threaten to shatter his placid existence ...

In the vein of Proust's In Search of Lost Time, J. B. Priestley's Bright Day (1946) is one of his finest works and his own favorite of his novels, a haunting and unforgettable evocation of a vanished England as yet unravaged by the devastation of two world wars.

"One of the best of J. B. Priestley's novels . . . provides an opportunity to revalue a writer not merely hugely popular in his own day but also, with more than 100 titles to his credit, hugely prolific." - Francis King, The Spectator

"A glow of the magic of poignant rediscovery." - Kirkus Reviews

"I do not think Priestley has ever written anything better than this book." - News Chronicle

Number of Pages: 296
Dimensions: 0.74 x 8 x 5 IN
Publication Date: September 24, 2019
ISBN9781948405379
Author J. B. Priestley
PublisherValancourt Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2019
LanguageENG- English
Pages296
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About J. B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley was born in 1894 in Bradford, Yorkshire. His plays dominated the London stage from the 1930s to the 1950s with such classics as Dangerous Corner, Eden End, Laburnum Grove, I Have Been Here Before, Time and the Conways, When We Are Married, Johnson Over Jordan, They Came to a City, An Inspector Calls, The Linden Tree, Summer Day's Dream and The Glass Cage. His many novels include The Good Companions, Angel Pavement, Bright Day and Lost Empires. During the Second World War, he established a new reputation as a broadcaster and social commentator. He died in 1984.

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