Let The People Sing
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the grand tradition of English comic fiction, Let the People Sing is a boisterous, warm-hearted romp through the English countryside, chronicling the unlikely alliance of a washed-up music hall comedian, a Czech professor, and a cast of gloriously eccentric characters as they band together to save a beloved community hall from the clutches of profit-driven industrialists. J. B. Priestley constructs a plot brimming with mistaken identities, spirited chases, and the kind of chaotic good humour that made him one of Britain's most beloved popular novelists of the twentieth century — originally conceived and broadcast as a BBC radio serial in 1938 before being published to great acclaim. Beneath its rollicking surface, the novel mounts a passionate and deeply felt argument for the cultural and communal life of ordinary English people against the encroachments of commerce and class snobbery. Priestley's prose is vivid and generous, his dialogue crackles with wit, and his instinct for the absurd is matched only by his profound affection for the working and middle classes he so faithfully portrays. Let the People Sing stands as both a delightful entertainment and a quietly radical defence of the idea that art, music, and community belong to everyone — a sentiment as urgent today as it was on the eve of the Second World War.
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 grand tradition of English comic fiction, Let the People Sing is a boisterous, warm-hearted romp through the English countryside, chronicling the unlikely alliance of a washed-up music hall comedian, a Czech professor, and a cast of gloriously eccentric characters as they band together to save a beloved community hall from the clutches of profit-driven industrialists. J. B. Priestley constructs a plot brimming with mistaken identities, spirited chases, and the kind of chaotic good humour that made him one of Britain's most beloved popular novelists of the twentieth century — originally conceived and broadcast as a BBC radio serial in 1938 before being published to great acclaim. Beneath its rollicking surface, the novel mounts a passionate and deeply felt argument for the cultural and communal life of ordinary English people against the encroachments of commerce and class snobbery. Priestley's prose is vivid and generous, his dialogue crackles with wit, and his instinct for the absurd is matched only by his profound affection for the working and middle classes he so faithfully portrays. Let the People Sing stands as both a delightful entertainment and a quietly radical defence of the idea that art, music, and community belong to everyone — a sentiment as urgent today as it was on the eve of the Second World War.