Angel Pavement, 1948 r./zestaw dwóch książek

Angel Pavement, 1948 r./zestaw dwóch książek - J.B. Priestley

Angel Pavement is a novel by J. B. Priestley, published in 1930 after the enormous success of The Good Companions. It is often paired with English Journey (1934). It is a social panorama of the city of London, seen largely through the eyes of the employees of the firm Twigg & Dersingham, on the first floor of No. 8, Angel Pavement. Their lives are changed after the arrival of a mysterious Mr Golspie, who assures the future of their veneer-and-inlay company through imports from the Baltic. The story is set against the background of the Great Depression. Dedicated to C. S. Evans, his editor at Heinemann, it was begun in October 1929, worked on in London and then at Kingswear in Devon, and completed in April 1930. It sold nearly as well as its predecessor. Priestley's next novel was the relatively unambitious Faraway (1932); most of his energies in the 1930s were devoted to plays.