Word: priestleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ANGEL PAVEMENT--J. B. Priestley (Harpers...
...predilection for the sophisticated brand of humor displayed by Peter Arno in his "Hullabaloo" and the same thing by other artists in the "Third New Yorker Album." Those desiring more substantial reading are now concentrating on "Charles W. Eliot" by Henry James and on such bulky tomes as Priestley's "Angel Pavement" and Arnold Bennett's "Imperial Palace...
ANGEL PAVEMENT--Priestley (Harpers...
Through the dingy parts of London, beloved of authors and others, pleasantly rambles this latest novel of J. B. Priestley. Characters and plot are both unexciting and vaguely familiar, but their simplicity is followed out with such a happy fertility of notions that one spends hour upon hour completely pleased. There is much reminiscent of Dombeys and Forsytes, but this book is content with a more humble standard of artistic verity, and if for that reason the thousands are less appreciative, the tens of thousands will be the more delighted...
...Significance. Author Priestley writes freshly and smiles frequently. But his humor and facility engender their allied failings, and the book never bites through to reality. Lacking the sincere emotionalism of Dickens, he yet does not reach the labored truth of Galsworthy, though he has learned from both. Still his lively perceptions create a very readable and satisfying counterfeit of life. Accomplished craftsman, lie has an excellent understanding of the novelist's profession, a less imposing knowledge...