J.B. Priestley's Particular Pleasures

J.B. Priestley's 1975 book Particular Pleasures consists of brief commentaries on his favourite paintings, musical works, actors, and comedians.

Painting

• Pieter Brugel the Elder (1525-69) - Hunters in the Snow
• Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) - Gilles
• William Hogarth (1697-1764) - The Graham Children
• Joseph Highmore (1629-1780) (sic) - Mr Oldham and His Guests
• Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) - The Painter's Daughters with a Cat
• John Constable (1776-1837) - Study for The Hay Wain and Weymouth Bay
• Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) - Princess de Lieven
• Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) - A First Rate Taking in Stores and A Tree in a Storm
• John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) - A Dismasted Brig
• Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796-1875) - Avignon from the West
• Honoré Daumier (1808-79) - Don Quixote
• Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) - Road near Mont Sainte-Victoire
• Alfred W. Elmore (1815-81) - Nude
• Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) - Aha oe feii? What, are you jealous?
• Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1932) - Café Scene
• Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) - La Table
• Jean Edouard Vuillard (1868-1945) - Indoor Scene with Children
• Sir William Nicholson (1872-1914) - Begonias
• Spencer Frederick Gore (1878-1914) - The Garden, Rowlandson House
• Paul Nash (1889-1946) - Totes Meer
• Nicolas de Staël (1914-55) - Soccer Players
• Paul Delvaux (1897 - ) - Hands
• Edna Clarke Hall (1881 - ) - Family Group

Music

• Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868) - Overtures
• Hector Berlioz (1803-69) - Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14
• Robert Schumann (1810-56) - Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120
• Franz Liszt (1811-86) - First Movement of the Faust Symphony
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) - Falstaff
• Bedrich Smetana (1824-84) - Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15
• Anton Bruckner (1824-96) - Scherzo of Symphony No. 7 in E
• Johannes Brahms (1833-97) - Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
• Georges Bizet (1838-97) - Symphony in C
• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-93) - Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
• Antonin Dvorák (1841-1904) - Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
• Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) - Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor
• Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) - Symphony No. 1 in A flat, Op. 55
• Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) - Das Liede von der Erde, "Der Abschied"
• Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918) - Orchestral Suite, La Mer
• Richard Strauss (1864-1949) - Tone Poem for Orchestra, Don Juan
• Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) - Ballet, The Seasons, Op. 67
• Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) - Finale of Symphony No. 5. in E flat major, Op. 82
• Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov (1873-1943) - Symphony No. 3 in A minor
• Gustav Holst (1874-1934) - Orchestral Suite, The Planets, Op. 32
• Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - La Valse, Poème Choréographique
• Béla Bartók (1881-1945) - Music for Strings, Percussion and Orchestra
• Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) - A Cantata and a Prayer
• Sir William Walton (1902 - ) Orchestral Suite, Façade

Acting

• Peggy Ashcroft
• Humphrey Bogart
• Gerald du Maurier
• Edith Evans
• John Gielgud
• Alec Guinness
• Edmund Gwenn
• Cedric Hardwicke
• Katharine Hepburn
• Charles Laughton
• Gertrude Lawrence and Noël Coward
• Wilfrid Lawson
• The Lunts
• Marilyn Monroe
• Laurence Olivier
• Jules Raimu
• Claude Rains
• Ralph Richardson
• Jean Forbes-Robertson
• George C. Scott
• Alastair Sim
• Arthur Sinclair
• Sybil Thorndike
• Spencer Tracy

Clowning

• The Aldwych Comedians
• Jack Benny
• Charlie Chaplin
• Tommy Cooper
• Sid Field
• W.C. Fields
• The Fratellini
• Grock
• Tony Hancock
• Leslie Henson
• Sydney Howard
• Frankie Howerd
• Buster Keaton
• Jimmy Learmouth
• The Marx Brothers
• Morecambe and Wise
• George Robey and Robb Wilton
• Harry Tate
• Jacques Tati
• Little Tich