The Good Companions
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the grey, restless years following the First World War, three lonely souls — a wandering Yorkshireman, a spinster fleeing her stifling life, and a young man with music in his blood — find their fates irrevocably entwined when they join a ragtag travelling concert party called the Dinky Doos. J. B. Priestley's The Good Companions is a triumphant picaresque adventure that chronicles the misadventures, romances, and small glories of ordinary people daring to reach for something beyond the mundane, set against the vivid, bustling backdrop of provincial England. Published in 1929 to immediate and thunderous acclaim, the novel catapulted Priestley to literary stardom and stands as one of the great celebratory works of English popular fiction. With a warmth, wit, and generosity of spirit that recalls Dickens, Priestley illustrates the redemptive power of community and the quiet courage it takes to reinvent oneself — and leaves the reader wondering whether the greatest adventure is not the road itself, but the companions one finds along the way.
Author: J. B. Priestley
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the grey, restless years following the First World War, three lonely souls — a wandering Yorkshireman, a spinster fleeing her stifling life, and a young man with music in his blood — find their fates irrevocably entwined when they join a ragtag travelling concert party called the Dinky Doos. J. B. Priestley's The Good Companions is a triumphant picaresque adventure that chronicles the misadventures, romances, and small glories of ordinary people daring to reach for something beyond the mundane, set against the vivid, bustling backdrop of provincial England. Published in 1929 to immediate and thunderous acclaim, the novel catapulted Priestley to literary stardom and stands as one of the great celebratory works of English popular fiction. With a warmth, wit, and generosity of spirit that recalls Dickens, Priestley illustrates the redemptive power of community and the quiet courage it takes to reinvent oneself — and leaves the reader wondering whether the greatest adventure is not the road itself, but the companions one finds along the way.