The famous English novelist and playwright John Boynton Priestley (1894–1984) this time appears before readers as a wonderful storyteller. Accuracy of observ...

There comes a time when even the most decent English gentleman wants to experience a real adventure, feel the salty sea wind, breathe the air of distant, exo...

A new novel by the author of “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.” An ordinary boy, Pierrot, lives in Paris. His mother is French and his father is German. Dad w...

In the novel “Three in New Suits,” the writer talks about how soldiers returning from the front do not want to live in the old way.

English prose writer and playwright J. B. Priestley (1894–1984) is well known in our country for his television plays and films “A Dangerous Turn,” “An Inspe...

The essays collected in the book were included in the 1st ("I had time") and the 2nd (all the rest) volumes of "Selected Works in Two Volumes" by J. B. Pries...

The morals of modern English bureaucracy and wealthy ordinary people are the main theme of the novel Sir Michael and Sir George.

The main action of J. B. Priestley's book “Uncle Nick and the Variety Show” took place in the pre-war period (1913–1914). The book tells about the life of a ...

Ghosts, spirits, phantoms are eternal wanderers who find no rest: they plunge ordinary people into awe, push them to reckless actions, and make them believe ...

If you look hard enough, you can find stories pretty much anywhere. They don’t even have to be your own. Or so would-be writer Maurice Swift decides very ...

The Invisibles...In fact, they are no different from us, but they are not people, but a certain association of evil principles, agents of the diabolical prin...

“Angel Street” by John Boynton Priestley is a novel in which the author addresses the phenomenon of “success psychology” that became popular in Britain in th...