‘The finest book ever written about England and the English’
Stuart Maconie ‘J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of
the 20th Century and it is time that we all became re-acquainted
with his genius.’ Dame Judi Dench Three years before George
Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North in The Road
to Wigan Pier, celebrated writer and broadcaster JB Priestley cast
his net wider, in a book subtitled ‘a Rambling but Truthful
Account of What One Man Saw and Heard and Felt and Thought During a
Journey Through England During the Autumn of the Year 1933.’
Appearing first in 1934, it was a huge and immediate success.
Today, it still stands as a timeless classic: warm-hearted,
intensely patriotic and profound. An account of his journey through
England – from Southampton to the Black Country, to the North
East and Newcastle, to Norwich and home – English Journey is
funny and tender. But it is also a forensic reading of a changing
England and a call to arms as passionate as anything in Orwell’s
bleak masterpiece. Moreover, it both captured and catalysed the
public mood of its time. In capturing and describing an English
landscape and people hitherto unseen, writing scathingly about
vested interests and underlining the dignity of working people,
Priestley influenced the thinking and attitudes of an entire
generation and helped formulate a public consensus for change that
led to the birth of the welfare state. Prophetic and as relevant
today as it was nearly ninety years ago, English Journey is an
elegant and readable love letter to a country Priestley finds
unfathomable.
General
Imprint: |
Harper North
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2023 |
Authors: |
J.B. Priestley
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
384 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-00-858567-9 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-00-858567-9 |
Barcode: |
9780008585679 |
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