DELIGHT — J.B. Priestley

Special 60th anniversary edition

60th anniversary edition of one of Priestley's most acclaimed and best loved collections of short essays.

Best known today as a novelist, playwright and a social commentator J.B. Priestley first found fame as a master of the short essay â€" a form he described as his favourite. Delight is a superb collection of one hundred and fourteen brief essays that capture and record the moments of wonder and beauty that are found beneath the surface of everyday experience. In his characteristic elegant, simple language Priestley praises the pleasures and magic of music, theatre, newspapers, travel, sport, playing games, childhood, the profession of authorship, domestic life and much more. An instant success when first published this hugely entertaining, amusing and life-enhancing book now returns to enthral and delight the modern reader.

‘J.B. Priestley was one of the great authors of the twentieth century and a prose writer of great skill and charm. His essays, many of which I published when I was editor of the New Statesman, were in the grand tradition of Hazlitt and Lamb, Chesterton and Belloc. I am delighted to hear that Delight is back in print â€" these wonderful essays are among his finest.' Paul Johnson, The Spectator.

‘I have an old and treasured edition of Delight and it will be lovely to have a shiny new one. Delightful, you might say.' Alan Plater