Word: dursley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon as Author Priestley's readers learn that William Dursley's study is "a cozy higgledy-piggledy" and that he plays a high-spirited gambit at chess, they will doubtless be better prepared than Author Priestley's hero for what follows: a treasure hunt, for pitchblende, to Faraway Island via Manhattan, San Francisco, Tahiti. A transoceanic treasure hunt is a new sort of theme for Author Priestley but it is well suited to his fondness for sketching minor characters. Faraway is as full of them as a suburban telephone directory. William Dursley has three traveling companions: a retired naval officer...
...about everyday matters like sex, communism, the cinema, debauchery, patriotism, honesty. The ramblings of Author Priestley's invention are limitless. They make Faraway what one of Author Priestley's seafaring men might call a "scrumdoolious" chronicle, even more higgledy-piggledy than the study which is still waiting for William Dursley after 450 pages of cozy adventuring...
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