Knowledge

Angel Pavement

Source 📝

350:. On returning home he finds out that his daughter Edna has been sacked, but he is not terribly dismayed; he admits to his wife that he has been given a rise, something which he had been planning to keep secret. On Saturday night his wife's cousin, Fred Mitty, and his family, arrive for a party, and Mr Smeeth quickly comes to loathe them after they wreck the parlour and damage some of his clothes. 362:
everything in despair, and they drive to Carrington Villas, but Lena is not there – she has run off. Mr Golspie sacks Mr Turgis. He returns to his rented room and considers suicide. The next morning, Poppy Sellers arrives to deliver his last pay packet, and they have a long talk which reconciles him to the idea of spending time with her.
335:
Matfield, and her disastrous date with Norman Birtley, which is enlivened only by an accidental meeting with Mr Golspie, who gives her a box of chocolates on a whim. Later on Mr Golspie seems even more glamorous, when, shortly before leaving for a short trip, he asks her to take down letters on board the moored steamship
319:
if Mr Dersingham's absence indicates that they are all about to lose their jobs. But at five, Mr Dersingham returns and informs Mr Smeeth that the newcomer has offered a cheap supply of veneers from the Baltic, and their immediate future is assured. The next evening, Mr Golspie takes Mr Smeeth out for a drink at the
334:
The fourth chapter depicts one of the miserable weekends of the lonely young clerk, Mr Turgis, who wanders around London taking in any amusements he can afford. On the Monday after, he sees Lena Golspie for the first time, and is smitten. The fifth chapter depicts the narrow world of the typist, Miss
318:
The second chapter introduces the tobacconist T. Benenden, and shows Mr Smeeth's family and home life. The next morning, Dersingham still has not returned to the office, and during lunch Mr Smeeth hears an unpleasant story about the failure of an umbrella firm called Claridge & Molton. He wonders
373:
The epilogue depicts the unabashed Golspies shipping out from London, on their way to South America: "A string of barges passed them...a gull dropped, wheeled, flashed, was gone...the gleam faded from the face of the river; a chill wind stirred; the distant banks...retreated; and even the smoky haze
353:
Mr. Turgis has become obsessed with Lena Golspie, and jumps at a chance to see her again when he delivers some money from her father. She is bored, and takes him out to the cinema, flirting with him afterwards. They go on a second date, but she does not turn up to a third date, and he is devastated.
365:
In Chapter 11, Mr. Dersingham breaks the news to Mr Smeeth that Mr. Golspie has swindled them all and fled; the firm faces imminent bankruptcy. Mr. Dersingham returns home, obviously tipsy in front of their friends, and his wife is infuriated. But when she is fully informed of what has happened she
357:
Mr. Smeeth falls out with his wife, and is later disturbed by the departure of the office boy Stanley and a road accident involving the tobacconist Benenden. His son George seems to be employed by crooks, and Mr Golspie makes an arrangement with Mr Dersingham which strikes Smeeth as suspicious. He
395:
in 1930. Orwell, writing under his real name E. A. Blair, argued that Priestley's prose fails to "touch the level at which memorable fiction begins", lacking beauty, profundity and humour, and that "Mr Priestley's work is written altogether too easily, is not laboured upon as good fiction must
314:
called Angel Pavement, and the employees at Twigg & Dersingham. Business has not been good, and Mr Dersingham is trying to decide whom to sack. Mr Golspie arrives with a dispatch case containing a sample book of veneers and inlays, and asks to see Mr Dersingham. After a short delay, he is
361:
Mr Turgis is consumed with jealousy, and one Friday night he turns up unannounced at Lena's home and fights with her. Thinking he has strangled her, he wanders at random through London before arriving at Twigg & Dersingham, where Mr Golspie and Miss Matfield are "working late". He admits
29: 120:
It is a social panorama of the city of London, seen largely through the eyes of the employees of the firm Twigg & Dersingham, at No. 8, Angel Pavement. Their lives are changed after the arrival of a mysterious Mr Golspie, who assures the future of their
330:
dinner party at his home. The party is not a success, firstly because of the incompetence of the servants and secondly because of the unexpected arrival of the daughter, Lena Golspie, who quarrels with Miss Verever and Mrs Dersingham.
422:
reads the novel as a study of "detachment, the absolute conviction expressed by most of its characters that their lives would be better lived out elsewhere, doing other things and in the company of other people" and concluded that
354:
Mr Golspie returns shortly before Christmas, goes away again on Christmas Eve, and returns again in time for New Year's Eve, on which he contrives to take Miss Matfield out for the evening. They begin to go on dates secretly.
315:
admitted to Mr Dersingham's office, and there is a long discussion, after which both men leave mysteriously. Mr Smeeth is baffled, especially when Mr Dersingham rings up and tells him to sack their senior traveller, Mr Goath.
809: 465: 988: 913: 793: 1482: 427:"is a terrific example of the mainstream novel's occasional habit of noticing some of the features of ordinary life that so-called highbrow productions routinely ignore". 1225: 881: 1458: 1129: 307:
The prologue depicts the arrival in London of Mr Golspie, who has come by steamship from an unnamed Baltic country. He discusses his immediate plans with the crew.
1434: 849: 1332: 897: 1506: 1498: 1418: 1402: 1257: 1289: 1450: 1169: 1089: 1014: 1410: 745: 1394: 1081: 817: 1217: 1161: 785: 1185: 1057: 1281: 1121: 761: 1474: 953: 801: 945: 961: 721: 616: 1572: 133:. The story has as backdrop the high levels of unemployment and economic insecurity of late 1920s London, immediately before the 1667: 366:
feels a surge of energy. Mr. Smeeth returns home, and finding the Mittys there, throws them out, an action which restores
1657: 1605: 1672: 1581: 1556: 1548: 1532: 1032: 889: 440: 436: 1589: 1564: 1540: 1524: 1662: 714: 408:
as "an excellent holiday novel, genuinely gay and pleasant, which supplies a good bulk of reading matter for
1652: 1006: 342:
Mr Smeeth obtains a rise in salary, and after talking to Benenden, he celebrates by going to a concert at
825: 1177: 1041: 144:, it was begun in October 1929 and completed in April 1930. It sold nearly as well as its predecessor. 141: 68: 1297: 404:
as absurd, Orwell suggested that rejecting such blandishments would make possible an appreciation of
1375: 1305: 1265: 707: 563:
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume 1: An Age Like This 1920–1940
1490: 1113: 347: 1273: 1193: 937: 1442: 1313: 1249: 1137: 1097: 1073: 873: 612: 558: 419: 1105: 921: 841: 8: 1209: 1153: 1145: 905: 833: 769: 113: 1359: 1201: 969: 753: 1624: 1241: 1049: 459: 326:
A new typist is employed, Poppy Sellers, and Mr Dersingham invites Mr Golspie to a
311: 167: 134: 1466: 1426: 1233: 929: 730: 501: 401: 343: 210: 206: 158: 108: 42: 1630: 1367: 865: 453: 310:
The first chapter contains a detailed description of a fictional street in the
1646: 1351: 550: 495: 489: 480: 449:
produced a television adaptation of the novel, featuring the following cast:
382: 130: 679: 1598: 621: 554: 507: 474: 414: 280:
Mr Norman Birtley, a young man who goes on dates with Miss Matfield (ch. 5)
265:
Lilian Matfield, the 29-year-old typist, who lives at the Burpenfield Club
518: 391: 289: 122: 654: 642: 857: 154: 327: 274:
Miss Morrison and Miss Cadnam, other friends who live at Burpenfield
1065: 517:
In May 2013, a two-episode dramatisation of the novel was aired on
699: 188:
Miss Verever, a distant relation of Mrs Dersingham (ch. 3 and 11)
28: 191:
Major Trape and Mrs Trape, an estate agent and his wife (ch. 3)
153:
James Golspie, and his daughter Lena, of 4a Carrington Villas,
409: 126: 658: 446: 231:
Fred Mitty, a cousin of Edie who lives in a Northern city
185:
Mr and Mrs Pearson, retired from Singapore (ch. 3 and 11)
617:"JB Priestley: adventures of the 'tradesman of letters'" 514:
Another television adaptation aired in Britain in 1967.
251:
The foreign landlady at Carrington Villas (ch. 7 and 10)
172:
Howard Bromport Dersingham, nephew of the original owner
370:
energy, as does unexpected sympathy from Mrs Smeeth.
810:
They Walk in the City: The Lovers in the Stone Forest
593: 242:
Harold Turgis, the young clerk, of 9 Nathaniel Street
569: 581: 248:Park, a fellow lodger with socialist views (ch. 4) 111:, published in 1930 after the enormous success of 271:Evelyn Ansdell, a friend of Miss Matfield (ch. 5) 1644: 400:." Dismissing comparisons between Priestley and 237:Mr and Mrs Dalby, neighbours from no. 11 (ch. 6) 140:Dedicated to C. S. Evans, Priestley's editor at 538:J. B. Priestley: an Informal Study of his Work. 715: 643:"Angel Pavement (TV Series 1957)" at imdb.com 323:, and tells him he ought to ask for a rise. 268:Miss Tattersby, the Secretary at Burpenfield 197:The cook employed by the Dersinghams (ch. 3) 194:Agnes, a servant of the Dersinghams (ch. 3) 722: 708: 540:Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1958. Page 111. 374:of London city slipped away from them..." 277:Miss Kersey, a dreary Burpenfield resident 27: 521:, directed and produced by Chris Wallis. 396:be—not, in the good sense of the phrase, 221:George (20) and Edna (17), their children 358:goes to visit Benenden at the hospital. 257:Gregory Thorpe, his replacement (ch. 11) 1645: 611: 703: 599: 587: 575: 549: 729: 680:"Classical Serial – Angel Pavement" 245:Mr and Mrs Pelumpton, his landlords 13: 215:Herbert Norman Smeeth, the cashier 14: 1684: 129:company through imports from the 486:Robert Scroggins – Stanley Poole 234:Mrs Mitty, and the daughter, Dot 441:Angel Pavement (1967 TV series) 437:Angel Pavement (1957 TV series) 302: 672: 647: 636: 605: 543: 530: 430: 298:Mr Goath, the salesman (ch. 1) 295:Mrs Cross, the cleaner (ch. 1) 1: 524: 254:Stanley Poole, the office boy 147: 16:1930 novel by J. B. Priestley 914:Sir Michael & Sir George 471:Ursula Jenkins – Edna Smeeth 377: 339:, and pours her some vodka. 166:, of 34a Barkfield Gardens, 7: 1668:Heinemann (publisher) books 989:The Town Major of Miracourt 412:." Responding to Orwell in 285:Poppy Sellers, a new typist 10: 1689: 797:(1932 with Gerald Bullett) 565:. Penguin. pp. 47–50. 434: 181:Friends of the Dersinghams 1658:Novels by J. B. Priestley 1617: 1517: 1386: 1343: 1324: 1025: 998: 980: 882:Low Notes on a High Level 737: 92: 84: 74: 64: 56: 48: 38: 26: 1306:Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon 794:I'll Tell You Everything 765:(1929 with Hugh Walpole) 175:Mrs Dersingham, his wife 1673:Novels set in the 1920s 1518:Film and TV adaptations 1491:Over The Long High Wall 1459:British Women Go To War 1130:Mystery of Greenfingers 1114:I Have Been Here Before 999:Short story collections 348:Brahms's First Symphony 1435:Midnight on the Desert 850:Three Men in New Suits 553:(1968) . "Review". In 261:Miss Matfield's circle 227:Friends of the Smeeths 205:, of 17 Chaucer Road, 1443:We Live In Two Worlds 1333:The Chapman of Rhymes 1194:How Are They at Home? 1098:Bees on the Boat Deck 898:Saturn Over the Water 874:Festival at Farbridge 445:In December 1957 the 218:Edie Smeeth, his wife 69:William Heinemann Ltd 1663:Novels set in London 1578:(1966 sci-fi series) 1510:(1977 autobiography) 1507:Instead Of The Trees 1499:Particular Pleasures 1470:(1962 autobiography) 1454:(1939 autobiography) 1438:(1937 autobiography) 1419:Self-selected Essays 1403:Papers from Lilliput 1106:Time and the Conways 842:Daylight on Saturday 1653:1930 British novels 1558:The Good Companions 1534:The Good Companions 1290:Treasure on Pelican 1210:Ever Since Paradise 1178:They Came to a City 1154:Johnson Over Jordan 1146:When We Are Married 1042:The Good Companions 938:It's an Old Country 906:The Shapes of Sleep 834:Blackout in Gretley 826:Let the People Sing 770:The Good Companions 615:(9 November 2012). 114:The Good Companions 23: 1607:An Inspector Calls 1591:An Inspector Calls 1574:Out of the Unknown 1566:The Old Dark House 1542:An Inspector Calls 1526:The Old Dark House 1451:Rain Upon Godshill 1446:(1937 documentary) 1298:The White Countess 1250:Summer Day's Dream 1226:The Rose and Crown 1202:An Inspector Calls 1170:Goodnight Children 1090:Duet in Floodlight 1015:The Carfitt Crisis 970:Found, Lost, Found 346:, where he enjoys 21: 1640: 1639: 746:Adam in Moonshine 602:, pp. 49–50. 292:in Angel Pavement 100: 99: 96:Print (hardcover) 85:Publication place 49:Cover artist 1680: 1625:Jacquetta Hawkes 1585:(1967 TV series) 1552:(1957 TV series) 1395:Brief Diversions 1242:Home Is Tomorrow 1050:Dangerous Corner 818:The Doomsday Men 724: 717: 710: 701: 700: 695: 694: 692: 690: 676: 670: 669: 667: 665: 655:"Angel Pavement" 651: 645: 640: 634: 633: 631: 629: 609: 603: 597: 591: 585: 579: 578:, pp. 47–8. 573: 567: 566: 547: 541: 534: 492:– Mr. Dersingham 466:Thomas Gallagher 460:Catherine Feller 410:ten and sixpence 312:EC postcode area 135:Great Depression 76:Publication date 31: 24: 20: 1688: 1687: 1683: 1682: 1681: 1679: 1678: 1677: 1643: 1642: 1641: 1636: 1613: 1576:: "Level Seven" 1513: 1467:Margin Released 1427:English Journey 1382: 1339: 1320: 1234:The Linden Tree 1218:The Long Mirror 1162:The Long Mirror 1021: 1007:The Other Place 994: 976: 930:Salt Is Leaving 733: 731:J. B. Priestley 728: 698: 688: 686: 678: 677: 673: 663: 661: 653: 652: 648: 641: 637: 627: 625: 610: 606: 598: 594: 586: 582: 574: 570: 548: 544: 535: 531: 527: 510:– George Smeeth 504:– Miss Matfield 502:Margaret Tyzack 443: 435:Main articles: 433: 402:Charles Dickens 380: 305: 288:T. Benenden, a 207:Stoke Newington 164:The Dersinghams 150: 109:J. B. Priestley 93:Media type 77: 43:J. B. Priestley 34: 22:Angel Pavement 17: 12: 11: 5: 1686: 1676: 1675: 1670: 1665: 1660: 1655: 1638: 1637: 1635: 1634: 1631:Mary Priestley 1628: 1621: 1619: 1615: 1614: 1612: 1611: 1603: 1595: 1587: 1583:Angel Pavement 1579: 1570: 1562: 1554: 1550:Angel Pavement 1546: 1538: 1530: 1521: 1519: 1515: 1514: 1512: 1511: 1503: 1495: 1487: 1483:The Edwardians 1479: 1471: 1463: 1455: 1447: 1439: 1431: 1423: 1415: 1407: 1399: 1390: 1388: 1384: 1383: 1381: 1380: 1372: 1368:Britain at Bay 1364: 1356: 1347: 1345: 1341: 1340: 1338: 1337: 1328: 1326: 1322: 1321: 1319: 1318: 1314:The Glass Cage 1310: 1302: 1294: 1286: 1278: 1270: 1266:Dragon's Mouth 1262: 1254: 1246: 1238: 1230: 1222: 1214: 1206: 1198: 1190: 1186:Desert Highway 1182: 1174: 1166: 1158: 1150: 1142: 1138:Music at Night 1134: 1126: 1118: 1110: 1102: 1094: 1086: 1078: 1074:Laburnum Grove 1070: 1062: 1058:The Roundabout 1054: 1046: 1038: 1029: 1027: 1023: 1022: 1020: 1019: 1011: 1002: 1000: 996: 995: 993: 992: 984: 982: 978: 977: 975: 974: 966: 958: 950: 942: 934: 926: 918: 910: 902: 894: 886: 878: 870: 866:Jenny Villiers 862: 854: 846: 838: 830: 822: 814: 806: 798: 790: 782: 778:Angel Pavement 774: 766: 758: 750: 741: 739: 735: 734: 727: 726: 719: 712: 704: 697: 696: 671: 646: 635: 604: 592: 580: 568: 542: 536:David Hughes. 528: 526: 523: 512: 511: 505: 499: 493: 487: 484: 483:– Mrs. Smeeth 478: 472: 469: 463: 462:– Lena Golspie 457: 454:Maurice Denham 432: 429: 425:Angel Pavement 406:Angel Pavement 387:Angel Pavement 379: 376: 304: 301: 300: 299: 296: 293: 286: 283: 282: 281: 278: 275: 272: 269: 266: 258: 255: 252: 249: 246: 243: 240: 239: 238: 235: 232: 224: 223: 222: 219: 216: 200: 199: 198: 195: 192: 189: 186: 178: 177: 176: 173: 161: 149: 146: 107:is a novel by 104:Angel Pavement 98: 97: 94: 90: 89: 88:United Kingdom 86: 82: 81: 78: 75: 72: 71: 66: 62: 61: 58: 54: 53: 50: 46: 45: 40: 36: 35: 32: 15: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 1685: 1674: 1671: 1669: 1666: 1664: 1661: 1659: 1656: 1654: 1651: 1650: 1648: 1632: 1629: 1626: 1623: 1622: 1620: 1616: 1610: 1608: 1604: 1601: 1600: 1596: 1594: 1592: 1588: 1586: 1584: 1580: 1577: 1575: 1571: 1569: 1567: 1563: 1561: 1559: 1555: 1553: 1551: 1547: 1545: 1543: 1539: 1537: 1535: 1531: 1529: 1527: 1523: 1522: 1520: 1516: 1509: 1508: 1504: 1501: 1500: 1496: 1493: 1492: 1488: 1485: 1484: 1480: 1477: 1476: 1472: 1469: 1468: 1464: 1461: 1460: 1456: 1453: 1452: 1448: 1445: 1444: 1440: 1437: 1436: 1432: 1429: 1428: 1424: 1421: 1420: 1416: 1413: 1412: 1408: 1405: 1404: 1400: 1397: 1396: 1392: 1391: 1389: 1385: 1378: 1377: 1373: 1370: 1369: 1365: 1362: 1361: 1357: 1354: 1353: 1352:Sing As We Go 1349: 1348: 1346: 1342: 1335: 1334: 1330: 1329: 1327: 1323: 1316: 1315: 1311: 1308: 1307: 1303: 1300: 1299: 1295: 1292: 1291: 1287: 1284: 1283: 1282:Private Rooms 1279: 1276: 1275: 1271: 1268: 1267: 1263: 1260: 1259: 1258:Bright Shadow 1255: 1252: 1251: 1247: 1244: 1243: 1239: 1236: 1235: 1231: 1228: 1227: 1223: 1220: 1219: 1215: 1212: 1211: 1207: 1204: 1203: 1199: 1196: 1195: 1191: 1188: 1187: 1183: 1180: 1179: 1175: 1172: 1171: 1167: 1164: 1163: 1159: 1156: 1155: 1151: 1148: 1147: 1143: 1140: 1139: 1135: 1132: 1131: 1127: 1124: 1123: 1122:People at Sea 1119: 1116: 1115: 1111: 1108: 1107: 1103: 1100: 1099: 1095: 1092: 1091: 1087: 1084: 1083: 1079: 1076: 1075: 1071: 1068: 1067: 1063: 1060: 1059: 1055: 1052: 1051: 1047: 1044: 1043: 1039: 1037: 1035: 1031: 1030: 1028: 1024: 1017: 1016: 1012: 1009: 1008: 1004: 1003: 1001: 997: 990: 986: 985: 983: 981:Short stories 979: 972: 971: 967: 964: 963: 959: 956: 955: 951: 948: 947: 943: 940: 939: 935: 932: 931: 927: 924: 923: 919: 916: 915: 911: 908: 907: 903: 900: 899: 895: 892: 891: 890:The Magicians 887: 884: 883: 879: 876: 875: 871: 868: 867: 863: 860: 859: 855: 852: 851: 847: 844: 843: 839: 836: 835: 831: 828: 827: 823: 820: 819: 815: 812: 811: 807: 804: 803: 799: 796: 795: 791: 788: 787: 783: 780: 779: 775: 772: 771: 767: 764: 763: 762:Farthing Hall 759: 756: 755: 751: 748: 747: 743: 742: 740: 736: 732: 725: 720: 718: 713: 711: 706: 705: 702: 685: 681: 675: 660: 656: 650: 644: 639: 624: 623: 618: 614: 613:Taylor, D. J. 608: 601: 596: 590:, p. 49. 589: 584: 577: 572: 564: 560: 556: 555:Orwell, Sonia 552: 546: 539: 533: 529: 522: 520: 515: 509: 506: 503: 500: 498:– Mr. Golspie 497: 496:Sydney Tafler 494: 491: 490:Anthony Sharp 488: 485: 482: 481:Maureen Pryor 479: 476: 473: 470: 467: 464: 461: 458: 455: 452: 451: 450: 448: 442: 438: 428: 426: 421: 417: 416: 411: 407: 403: 399: 394: 393: 388: 384: 383:George Orwell 375: 371: 369: 363: 359: 355: 351: 349: 345: 340: 338: 332: 329: 324: 322: 316: 313: 308: 297: 294: 291: 287: 284: 279: 276: 273: 270: 267: 264: 263: 262: 259: 256: 253: 250: 247: 244: 241: 236: 233: 230: 229: 228: 225: 220: 217: 214: 213: 212: 208: 204: 201: 196: 193: 190: 187: 184: 183: 182: 179: 174: 171: 170: 169: 165: 162: 160: 156: 152: 151: 145: 143: 138: 136: 132: 128: 124: 118: 116: 115: 110: 106: 105: 95: 91: 87: 83: 79: 73: 70: 67: 63: 59: 55: 51: 47: 44: 41: 37: 33:First edition 30: 25: 19: 1627:(third wife) 1606: 1599:Lost Empires 1597: 1590: 1582: 1573: 1565: 1557: 1549: 1541: 1533: 1525: 1505: 1497: 1489: 1481: 1475:Man and Time 1473: 1465: 1457: 1449: 1441: 1433: 1425: 1417: 1409: 1401: 1393: 1376:Last Holiday 1374: 1366: 1358: 1350: 1331: 1312: 1304: 1296: 1288: 1280: 1274:Mother's Day 1272: 1264: 1256: 1248: 1240: 1232: 1224: 1216: 1208: 1200: 1192: 1184: 1176: 1168: 1160: 1152: 1144: 1136: 1128: 1120: 1112: 1104: 1096: 1088: 1080: 1072: 1064: 1056: 1048: 1040: 1033: 1013: 1005: 968: 960: 952: 944: 936: 928: 922:Lost Empires 920: 912: 904: 896: 888: 880: 872: 864: 856: 848: 840: 832: 824: 816: 808: 800: 792: 784: 777: 776: 768: 760: 752: 744: 687:. Retrieved 683: 674: 662:. Retrieved 649: 638: 626:. Retrieved 622:The Guardian 620: 607: 595: 583: 571: 562: 551:Blair, E. A. 545: 537: 532: 516: 513: 508:Robert Vahey 475:Alec McCowen 456:– Mr. Smeeth 444: 424: 420:D. J. Taylor 415:The Guardian 413: 405: 397: 390: 386: 381: 372: 367: 364: 360: 356: 352: 344:Queen's Hall 341: 336: 333: 325: 320: 317: 309: 306: 303:Plot summary 260: 226: 202: 180: 163: 139: 119: 112: 103: 102: 101: 52:Pinder Davis 18: 1609:(2015 film) 1593:(1982 film) 1568:(1963 film) 1560:(1957 film) 1544:(1954 film) 1536:(1933 film) 1528:(1932 film) 1387:Non-fiction 1360:Jamaica Inn 1344:Screenplays 954:Out Of Town 802:Wonder Hero 519:BBC Radio 4 431:Adaptations 392:The Adelphi 321:White Horse 290:tobacconist 203:The Smeeths 80:August 1930 1647:Categories 1633:(daughter) 1411:Open House 1034:Time Plays 946:London End 858:Bright Day 600:Blair 1968 588:Blair 1968 576:Blair 1968 559:Angus, Ian 525:References 398:worked out 155:Maida Vale 148:Characters 1082:Cornelius 754:Benighted 684:BBC.co.uk 477:– Turgis 468:– Captain 418:in 2012, 385:reviewed 378:Reception 328:black tie 142:Heinemann 65:Publisher 1066:Eden End 991:" (1930) 561:(eds.). 117:(1929). 57:Language 1618:Related 962:Snoggle 786:Faraway 337:Lemmala 60:English 1602:(1986) 1502:(1975) 1494:(1972) 1486:(1970) 1478:(1964) 1462:(1943) 1430:(1934) 1422:(1932) 1414:(1927) 1406:(1922) 1398:(1922) 1379:(1950) 1371:(1940) 1363:(1939) 1355:(1934) 1336:(1918) 1325:Poetry 1317:(1957) 1309:(1955) 1301:(1954) 1293:(1953) 1285:(1953) 1277:(1953) 1269:(1952) 1261:(1950) 1253:(1949) 1245:(1948) 1237:(1947) 1229:(1947) 1221:(1947) 1213:(1946) 1205:(1945) 1197:(1944) 1189:(1944) 1181:(1943) 1173:(1942) 1165:(1940) 1157:(1939) 1149:(1938) 1141:(1938) 1133:(1937) 1125:(1937) 1117:(1937) 1109:(1937) 1101:(1936) 1093:(1935) 1085:(1935) 1077:(1934) 1069:(1934) 1061:(1932) 1053:(1932) 1045:(1931) 1036:series 1018:(1974) 1010:(1953) 973:(1976) 965:(1971) 957:(1968) 949:(1968) 941:(1967) 933:(1966) 925:(1965) 917:(1964) 909:(1962) 901:(1961) 893:(1954) 885:(1954) 877:(1951) 869:(1947) 861:(1946) 853:(1945) 845:(1943) 837:(1942) 829:(1939) 821:(1938) 813:(1936) 805:(1933) 789:(1932) 781:(1930) 773:(1929) 757:(1927) 749:(1927) 738:Novels 689:13 May 131:Baltic 123:veneer 39:Author 1026:Plays 664:5 May 628:5 May 127:inlay 125:-and- 691:2013 666:2020 659:IMDb 630:2020 439:and 447:BBC 389:in 368:his 211:N16 168:SW5 1649:: 682:. 657:. 619:. 557:; 209:, 159:W9 157:, 137:. 987:" 723:e 716:t 709:v 693:. 668:. 632:.

Index


J. B. Priestley
William Heinemann Ltd
J. B. Priestley
The Good Companions
veneer
inlay
Baltic
Great Depression
Heinemann
Maida Vale
W9
SW5
Stoke Newington
N16
tobacconist
EC postcode area
black tie
Queen's Hall
Brahms's First Symphony
George Orwell
The Adelphi
Charles Dickens
ten and sixpence
The Guardian
D. J. Taylor
Angel Pavement (1957 TV series)
Angel Pavement (1967 TV series)
BBC
Maurice Denham

Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.