Miskatonic University Press

J.B. Priestley Bibliography

This is not complete, and not completely accurate, but I think it’s fairly close on both counts.

1910s

  • The Chapman of Rhymes (London: Alexander Moring, 1918)

1920s

  • Brief Diversions (Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes, 1922)
  • Papers from Lilliput (Cambridge: Bowes & Bowes, 1922)
  • I for One (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1923)
  • Figures in Modern Literature (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1924)
  • The English Comic Characters (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1925)
  • George Meredith (London: Macmillan & Co., 1926)
  • Essays of To-day and Yesterday (London: George Harrap & Co., 1926)
  • Talking, One of a Series of Essays Entitled: These Diversions (London: Jarrolds, 1926)
  • Adam in Moonshine (London: William Heinemann, 1927)
  • Open House, A Book of Essays (London: William Heinemann, 1927)
  • Thomas Love Peacock (London: Macmillan & Co., 1927)
  • Benighted (London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1927)
  • The English Novel (London: Ernest Benn, 1927)
  • Apes and Angels: A Book of Essays (London: Methuen, 1928)
  • Farthing Hall (with Hugh Walpole) (London: Macmillan & Co., 1929)
  • English Humour (London: Longmans Green and Co., 1929)
  • The Good Companions (London: William Heinemann, 1929)
  • The Balconinny and Other Essays (London: Methuen, 1929)

1930s

  • The Town Major of Miraucourt (London: William Heinemann, 1930)
  • Angel Pavement (London: William Heinemann, 1930)
  • Dangerous Corner, A Play in Three Acts (London: William Heinemann, 1932)
  • Faraway (London: William Heinemann, 1932)
  • Self-Selected Essays (London: William Heinemann, 1932)
  • I'll Tell You Everything (with Gerald Bullett) (London: Macmillan, 1932)
  • The Roundabout, A Comedy in Three Acts (London: William Heinemann, 1933)
  • Wonder Hero (London: William Heinemann, 1933)
  • Albert Goes Through (London: William Heinemann, 1933)
  • Laburnum Grove, An Immoral Comedy in Three Acts (London: William Heinemann in association with Victor Gollancz, 1934)
  • English Journey, Being a Rambling but Truthful Account of What One Man Saw and Heard and Felt and Thought During a Journey Through England During the Autumn of the Year 1933 (London: William Heinemann, 1934)
  • Eden End, A Play in Three Acts (London: William Heinemann, 1934)
  • Duet in Floodlight (1935)
  • Cornelius, A Business Affair in Three Transactions (London: William Heinemann, 1935)
  • The Good Companions, A Play in Two Acts (with Edward Knoblock) (London: William Heinemann, 1935)
  • Three Plays and a Preface (London: William Heinemann, 1935)
  • Spring Tide (as Peter Goldsmith, with George Billam) (1936)
  • Charles Dickens (London: Thomas Nelson, 1936)
  • Bees on the Boat Deck, A Comedy in Two Acts (London: William Heinemann, 1936)
  • They Walk in the City, The Lovers in the Stone Forest (London: William Heinemann, 1936)
  • Time And The Conways, A Play in Three Acts (London: William Heinemann, 1937)
  • Mystery of Greenfingers, A Comedy of Detection (London: Samuel French, 1937)
  • I Have Been Here Before, A Play in Three Acts (London: William Heinemann, 1937)
  • People at Sea, A Play in Three Acts (London: William Heinemann, 1937)
  • Midnight on the Desert, A Chapter of Autobiography (London: William Heinemann, 1937)
  • Two Time Plays (Time And The Conways and I Have Been Here Before plus new 7 page intro.) (London: William Heinemann, 1937)
  • The Doomsday Men, An Adventure (London: William Heinemann, 1938)
  • When We Are Married, A Yorkshire Farcical Comedy (London: William Heinemann, 1938)
  • Johnson Over Jordan, The Play and All About It (An Essay) (London: William Heinemann, 1939)
  • Rain Upon Godshill, A Further Chapter of Autobiography (London: William Heinemann, 1939)
  • Let the People Sing (London: William Heinemann, 1939)
  • Our Nation's Heritage (London: J. M. Dent, 1939)

1940s

  • The Long Mirror (1940)
  • Postscripts (London: William Heinemann, 1940)
  • Out of the People (London: Collins, 1941)
  • Britain At War (Harper and Brothers, 1942)
  • Goodnight Children (1942)
  • Black-out in Gretley, A Story of - and for - Wartime (London: William Heinemann, 1942)
  • Daylight on Saturday, A Novel About an Aircraft Factory (London: William Heinemann, 1943)
  • British Women Go To War (London: Collins, 1943)
  • Manpower, The Story of Britain's Mobilisation for War (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1943)
  • Three Plays (Music At Night, The Long Mirror, They Came To A City) (London: William Heinemann, 1943)
  • Desert Highway, A Play in Two Acts and an Interlude (London: William Heinemann, 1944)
  • They Came to a City (London: Samuel French, 1944)
  • "Letter to a Returning Serviceman" (London: Home & Van Thal, 1945)
  • Three Men in New Suits (London: William Heinemann, 1945)
  • Bright Day (London: William Heinemann, 1946)
  • Ever Since Paradise, An Enterainment Chiefly Referring to Love and Marriage (music by Dennis Arundell) (London: Samuel French, 1946)
  • The Secret Dream: An Essay on Britain, America and Russia (London: Turnstile Press, 1946)
  • Russian Journey (Writers Group of the Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR, 1946)
  • Jenny Villiers (London: William Heinemann, 1947)
  • Scenes Of London Life - From 'Sketches by Boz' by Charles Dickens Selected and Introduced by J.B. Priestley (London: Pan, 1947)
  • The Arts Under Socialism, Being a Lecture Given to the Fabian Society with a Postcript on What the Government Should Do for the Arts Here and Now (London: Turnstile Press, 1947)
  • Music at Night, A Play (London: Samuel French, 1947)
  • The Long Mirror, A Play in Three Acts (London: Samuel French, 1947)
  • The Rose & Crown, A Play in One Act (London: Samuel French, 1947)
  • An Inspector Calls, A Play in Three Acts (London: William Heinemann, 1947)
  • Theatre Outlook (London: Nicholson & Watson, 1947)
  • The Golden Fleece, A Comedy in Three Acts (London: Samuel French, 1948)
  • The Olympians, An Opera in Three Acts (libretto; music by Arthur Bliss) (London: Novello and Co., 1948)
  • The Linden Tree, A Play in Two Acts and Four Scenes (London: William Heinemann, 1948)
  • Delight (London: William Heinemann, 1949)
  • Home is Tomorrow, A Play in Two Acts (London: William Heinemann, 1949)

1950s

  • Bright Shadow, A Play of Detection in Three Acts (London: Samuel French, 1950)
  • Summer Day's Dream, A Play in Two Acts (London: Samuel French, 1950)
  • Festival at Farbridge(London: William Heinemann, 1951) (Fiction)
  • Dragon's Mouth, A Dramatic Quartet in Two Parts (London: William Heinemann, 1952)
  • Treasure on Pelican, A Play in Three Acts (London: Evans Brothers, 1953)
  • Private Rooms (1953)
  • Mother's Day (1953)
  • The Other Place (1953)
  • The Magicians (London: William Heinemann, 1954)
  • Low Notes on a High Level (London: William Heinemann, 1954)
  • Journey Down a Rainbow (with Jacquetta Hawkes) (London: Heinemann/Cresset, 1955)
  • All About Ourselves and Other Essays (London: William Heinemann, 1956)
  • The Writer in a Changing Society (Hand and Flower Press, 1956)
  • The Scandalous Affair of Mr Kettle and Mrs Moon, A Comedy in Three Acts (London: Samuel French, 1956)
  • The Art of the Dramatist, A Lecture Together with Appendices and Discursive Notes (London: William Heinemann, 1957)
  • Thoughts in the Wilderness (London: William Heinemann, 1957)
  • The Glass Cage, A Play in Two Acts (London: Samuel French, 1958)
  • Topside, or The Future of England (1958)

1960s

  • Literature and Western Man (London: William Heinemann, 1960)
  • William Hazlitt (1960)
  • Saturn Over the Water, An Account of His Adventures in London, South America and Australia by Tim Bedford, Painter; Edited - with Some Preliminary and Concluding Remarks - by Henry Sulgrave; and Here Presented to the Reading Public (London: Heinemann, 1961)
  • Charles Dickens, A Pictorial Biography (London: Thames and Hudson, 1961)
  • The Thirty-First of June: A Tale of True Love, Enterprise and Progress in the Arthurian and Ad-Atomic Ages (London: Heinemann, 1961)
  • Margin Released, A Writer's Reminiscences and Reflections (London: William Heinemann, 1962)
  • The Shapes of Sleep, A Tropical Tale (London: William Heinemann, 1962)
  • A Severed Head, A Play in Three Acts (with Iris Murdoch) (London: Chatto & Windus, 1964)
  • Sir Michael & Sir George, A Tale of COSMA and DISCUS and the New Elizabethans (London: William Heinemann, 1964)
  • Man and Time (London: Aldus, 1964)
  • Lost Empires, Being Richard Herncastle's Account of His Life on the Variety Stage from November 1913 to August 1914 Together with a Prologue and Epilogue (London: William Heinemann, 1965)
  • The Moments (London: William Heinemann, 1966)
  • Salt Is Leaving (London: Pan, 1966)
  • It's an Old Country (London: Heinemann, 1967)
  • The World of J.B. Priestley (chosen and introduced by Donald G. MacRae) (1967)
  • Out Of Town (The Image Men, Volume 1) (London: William Heinemann, 1968)
  • London End (The Image Men) (London: William Heinemann, 1968)
  • All England Listened, The Wartime Broadcasts (London: Chilmark, 1968)
  • Trumpets Over the Sea, Being a Rambling and Egotistical Account of the London Symphony Orchestra's Engagement at Daytona Beach, Florida, in July-August 1967 (London: Heinemann, 1968)
  • Charles Dickens and His World (London: Thames and Hudson, 1969)
  • Essays of Five Decades (London: William Heinemann, 1969)
  • The Prince of Pleasure (London: William Heinemann, 1969)
  • Time and the Conways, and Other Plays (Penguin, 1969)
  • When We Are Married, and Other Plays (Penguin, 1969)

1970s

  • The Edwardians (London: Heinemann, 1970)
  • Snoggle, A Story for Anybody Between 9 and 90 (London: Heinemann, 1971)
  • Victoria's Heyday (London: William Heinemann, 1972)
  • Over the Long High Wall (London: Heinemann, 1972)
  • The English (London: Heinemann, 1973)
  • A Visit to New Zealand (London: Heinemann, 1974)
  • Outcries And Asides (London: Heinemann, 1974)
  • The Carfitt Crisis (London: Heinemann, 1974) (Fiction)
  • Particular Pleasures, Being a Personal Record of Some Varied Arts and Many Different Artists (London: Heinemann, 1975)
  • English Humour (London: Heinemann, 1976)
  • Instead Of The Trees (London: Heinemann, 1977)