Margin Released: A Writer's Reminiscences And Reflections
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few writers of the twentieth century possessed the breadth of experience and sheer literary range of J.B. Priestley, and Margin Released stands as one of his most intimate and illuminating works — a candid memoir that charts the arc of a remarkable life, from his Bradford boyhood and the trenches of the First World War to his ascent as one of Britain's most celebrated novelists and playwrights. With characteristic warmth and directness, Priestley chronicles the literary world he inhabited, the friendships he forged, and the social forces that shaped both his generation and his art, all rendered with the easy authority of a man who lived fully and observed keenly. What distinguishes this memoir from mere autobiography is Priestley's penetrating intelligence and his refusal to sentimentalise the past; his reflections cut to the heart of what it meant to be a working writer in a rapidly changing Britain. His prose — conversational yet precise, humorous yet weighted with hard-won wisdom — presents a vivid portrait of a vanished world, from Edwardian England to the turbulent mid-century decades. Illustrated with an original frontispiece by Daniel Brifaud, this is a volume that will reward not only admirers of Priestley's fiction and drama, but anyone curious about the making of a literary mind and the century that tested it.
Author: J. B. Priestley
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few writers of the twentieth century possessed the breadth of experience and sheer literary range of J.B. Priestley, and Margin Released stands as one of his most intimate and illuminating works — a candid memoir that charts the arc of a remarkable life, from his Bradford boyhood and the trenches of the First World War to his ascent as one of Britain's most celebrated novelists and playwrights. With characteristic warmth and directness, Priestley chronicles the literary world he inhabited, the friendships he forged, and the social forces that shaped both his generation and his art, all rendered with the easy authority of a man who lived fully and observed keenly. What distinguishes this memoir from mere autobiography is Priestley's penetrating intelligence and his refusal to sentimentalise the past; his reflections cut to the heart of what it meant to be a working writer in a rapidly changing Britain. His prose — conversational yet precise, humorous yet weighted with hard-won wisdom — presents a vivid portrait of a vanished world, from Edwardian England to the turbulent mid-century decades. Illustrated with an original frontispiece by Daniel Brifaud, this is a volume that will reward not only admirers of Priestley's fiction and drama, but anyone curious about the making of a literary mind and the century that tested it.