John Boynton Priestley

John Boynton Priestley (13. september 1894, Bradford, Spojené kráľovstvo - 14. august 1984, Stratford-upon-Avon) bol anglický prozaik, novinár a literárny kritik. Jeho tvorba sa vyznačovala vtipom a humorom, ktoré vystihli ducha vtedajšej doby.

Dielo (výber)

Novely
Adam in Moonshine (1927)
Benighted (1928) House")
 The Good Companions (1929) (po slovensky Dobrí kamaráti, 1973))
Angel Pavement (1930)
Faraway (1932)
Wonder Hero (1933)
They Walk in the City (1936)
The Doomsday Men (1937)
Let the People Sing (1939)
Blackout in Gretley (1942)
Daylight on Saturday (1943)
Three Men in New Suits (1945)
Bright Day (1946)
Jenny Villiers (1947)
Festival at Farbridge (1951)
Low Notes on a High Level (1954)
The Magicians (1954)
Saturn over the Water (1961)
The Thirty-First of June (1961)
Salt Is Leaving (1961)
The Shapes of Sleep (1962)
Sir Michael and Sir George (1964)
Lost Empires (1965)
It's an Old Country (1967)
The Image Men Vol. 1: Out of Town (1968)
The Image Men Vol. 2: London End (1968)
King of Lies (2013)

Hry 
Dangerous Corner (1932)
Laburnum Grove (1933)
Eden End (1934)
Cornelius (1935)
Time and the Conways (1937)
I Have Been Here Before (1937)
When We Are Married (1938)
Johnson Over Jordan (1939)
The Long Mirror (1940)
'hey Came to a City (1943)An Inspector Calls (1946)The Linden Tree (1947)

 Literatúra 
 John Braine: J. B. Priestley. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1978, ISBN 0-297-77505-7
 Diana Collins: Time and the Priestleys. The story of a friendship. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1994, ISBN 0-7509-0828-9
 Judith Cook: Priestley. London: Bloomsbury, 1998, ISBN 0-7475-3508-6
 Alan Edwin Day: J.B. Priestley. An annotated bibliography. New York u.a.: Garland 1980. ISBN 0-8240-9798-X
 Holger Klein: J. B. Priestley's fiction. Lang, Frankfurt am Main u.a., 2002, ISBN 3-631-38869-1
 Ladislaus Löb, „Mensch und Gesellschaft bei J.B. Priestley.“ Bern, Francke Verlag 1962
 Reiner Poppe: Erläuterungen zu John Boynton Priestley, Ein Inspektor kommt.'' 3., überarb. Aufl., Hollfeld Bange, 1998, ISBN 3-8044-1658-6

Externé odkazy 
 J.B. Priestley Society

Zdroj 

Anglickí spisovatelia