The Shapes of Sleep
The Shapes of Sleep

Author: John Boynton Priestley

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780460125543

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Ben Sterndale, a freelance journalist who is currently not working, is offered a commission by a friend. The boss of the advertising agency where the friend works has lost, or had stolen a sheet of paper. This paper was covered in figures, but no-one knew what they meant. Sterndale establishes who visited the boss's office, and immediately realises that one of those is reported in the evening paper as a casualty in a road accident. He accepts the commission and heads off to the hospital where, by posing as an insurance man, he obtains some useful clues. The victim subsequently dies and Sterndale finds that there are several people looking into the man's affairs, none of whom is known to the others. His enquiries lead him to Germany, where he eventually tracks down the author of the paper, and discovers the meaning of those figures.

The Shapes of Sleep; a Topical Tale
The Shapes of Sleep; a Topical Tale

Author: J B (John Boynton) 1894- Priestley

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9781013479984

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The Vision of J.B. Priestley
The Vision of J.B. Priestley

Author: Roger Fagge

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-12-15

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1441168265

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Drawing on private and published sources, Roger Fagge takes an in-depth look at J.B. Priestley's work, seeking to reclaim him as an important English thinker. Priestley grew up in Bradford, and served on the front line in the First World War, before attending Cambridge and embarking on a career as a writer. A committed radical, he wrote widely for the press, as well as producing autobiographies, social criticism and plays. This work revealed a growing interest in the meaning of Englishness and the start of a long-running relationship with America. Priestley achieved even greater influence during the early years of World War II via his popular BBC radio 'postscripts'. His later career, however, saw his faith in the people give way to a disillusionment with the spread of the Americanised mass society, although his critical response to the latter maintained a perceptive engagement with world. The Vision of J.B. Priestley charts the continuities, strengths and weaknesses in the author's long career, and his vision of an outward looking radical Englishness.

The Shapes of Sleep
The Shapes of Sleep

Author: J. B. Priestley

Publisher:

Published: 2014-02

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9781939140982

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Mild-mannered Ben Sterndale is hired to locate a stolen document and finds himself embroiled in a deadly game of international intrigue.

Many Shapes of Clay
Many Shapes of Clay

Author: Kenesha Sneed

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2021-05-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 3791374680

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In this modern-day fable about grief, diversity, and family connections, a young girl discovers the joys--and pain--of the creative process. Winner of the Bookstagang Best of 2021: Best Conversation Starter Picture Books of 2021. Longlisted for the Klaus Flugge Prize. Ezra Jack Keats Award Honoree. Eisha lives with her mother, a ceramic artist, who helps her make a special shape out of a piece of clay. The shape reminds Eisha of her father, of the ocean, of a lemon. As Eisha goes through her neighborhood doing errands with her mother, the piece of clay hardens and then shatters into pieces when Eisha taps it. In poignant and powerful words and pictures, Kenesha Sneed shows how Eisha learns to live with the sense of loss and of the joyful power of making something new out of what is left behind. Illustrated with Sneed's bold colors, graphic lines, and gestural textures, the book celebrates diversity and shares a gentle message that we all have the ability to heal and create.