Angel Pavement

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His prolific output continued right up to his final years, and to the end he remained the great literary all-rounder. His favourite among his books was for many years the novel Bright Day, though he later said he had come to prefer The Image Men. He does not accept their views. A protagonist, Mr. Smeeth, presents a common father who wants an atmosphere of mutual aid, understanding and warmth in his family. Initially, Mr. Smeeth is disappointed by his daughter, he can’t understand her. She seems like smthunattractive for him anymore, for instance such words as with the help of which Mr. Smeeth describes his daughter “grayish-greenish-bluish eyes”, now he’s not sure, moreover he talks about it with some degree of disgust resorting to such kind of derivative. Band of Joy Band of Joy formed in 1966 in West Bromwich with Chris Brown (keyboards), Vernon Pereira (guitar) and singer Robert Plant…

The extract under analysis is written by an English novelist, playwright and a broadcaster, John Boynton Priestly. “Angel Pavement” is his novel published in 1930. It brought him a great success. Some problems are touched in this novel, for example, a problem of upbringing, a generation gap. Generally, Priestly touches upon problems in the society, emphasizes its inconsistency. The extract dwells upon a common dinner of a family. Mr. Smeeth, the head of a family, compares the behaviour of his children, George and Edna, today and several years ago. The prologue depicts the arrival in London of Mr Golspie, who has come by steamship from an unnamed Baltic country. He discusses his immediate plans with the crew. The firm’s owner, Howard Dersingham, unfortunately, is oblivious to looming disaster. When he agrees to Golspie’s request for his commission to be paid before the customers have settled their bills, it is a recipe for the final disaster…yet he then wonders why the firm’s woes are suddenly compounded. “Golspie’s cleared out, he’s done us in,” he cries. “Oh, the rotten swine! God, I was a fool to trust that chap a yard. It’s damnably unfair, Smeeth. We’ve simply been swindled.” There is an example of gradation in description of Edna by Mr. Smeeth’s words: “She was at her worst: languid and complaining, shrill and resentful, or sullen and tearful; Actually, the last extract presents a piece of argumentation in which the author by himself raises a problem of generation gap and gives examples. There is an example of metaphor “the product of a changing civilization”. It proves that they are people of a consumer generation. Also there is an example of parallel construction. Mr. Smeeth doesn’t consider his children as someone unique since it’s a characteristic of each parent to distinguish his child among others.Gathering a following in the York area, they set about recording a number of demos that they privately released on EP’s. Putting future recordings on hold, they took up an offer of work in Mexico for five months which shaped the quintet into a tight, harmonic musical unit and yielded several original compositions which they cut under the supervision of Morgan staff producer and Smoke drummer Geoff Gill upon their return to England in the summer of 1969. Miss Matfield, who is approaching spinsterhood, lives in the respectable Burpenfield Club, a residential club for women from good middle-class homes in the country who are compelled by economic circumstances to live in London as cheaply as possible. Along with all the others there, she hates the club and awaits a Prince Charming to carry her away, not only from the Burpenfield but also from Angel Pavement. She would probably marry anyone who might ask her, even dull Norman Birtley, a friend from the country, who, ill at ease in the bewildering city, cannot muster either the will or the courage to ask for her hand.

Howard Brompart Dersingham, the owner, by inheritance, of Twigg & Dersingham, a firm that is slowly failing, primarily because of his incompetence. In his late thirties, he is a poor product of the English public school system. His greed, gullibility, and ineptness make easy Golspie’s destruction of the company. Angel Pavement is a British television drama series which first aired on BBC 1 between 27 December 1957 and 17 January 1958. [1] It is an adaptation of the 1930 novel Angel Pavement by J.B. Priestley. It follows the fortunes of a small London-based company just before the outbreak of the Great Depression.

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Some members of the Conservative Party, including Winston Churchill, expressed concern that Priestley might be expressing left-wing views on the programme, and, to his dismay, Priestley was dropped after his talk on 20th October 1940.

What opinions are still left with regard to JB Priestley vary. School teachers are still happy to make An Inspector Calls the go-to book for mixed ability English classes, and Stephen Daldry’s wonderful stage version is still doing the rounds after 30 years. The other plays and the novels have not faired so well. Every so often interest is stirred in The Good Companions, or someone on Front Row reminisces about a production they saw eons ago of Time and the Conways. And nobody finds fault with his English Journey even if fewer have read it than claim to have done so. He looked what he ought to have been, in the opinion of a few thousand hasty and foolish observers of this life, and what he was not--a grey drudge. Angel Pavement and its kind, too hot and airless in summer, too raw in winter, too wet in spring, and too smoky and foggy in autumn, assisted by long hours of artificial light, by hasty breakfasts and illusory lunches, by walks in boots made of sodden cardboard and rides in germ-haunted buses, by fuss all day and worry at night, had blanched the whole man, had thinned his hair and turned it grey, wrinkled his forehead and the space at each side of his short grey moustache, put eyeglasses at one end of his nose and slightly sharpened and reddened the other end... An incredible chance awaits first-time buyers and investors alike, offering the perfect opportunity to acquire a centrally situated, first-floor apartment nestled in the vibrant heart of Royston. Conveniently positioned near Royston train station, Therfield Heath, and Priory Memorial Gardens, this residence boasts accessibility and charm. Sadly, Dave Smith died in 2011 after a short illness aged 61 years. He carried on playing as a member of local York bands in pubs and clubs right up to the end. Angel Pavement is a novel by J. B. Priestley, published in 1930 after the enormous success of The Good Companions (1929).A second television adaptation of the novel was produced by the BBC in 1967. Both adaptations are considered completely lost. There are signs of our society to come, in the attitude of the young people, seeking something they cannot quite put into words, something different. The grip of 'the talkies' in a pre TV and computer age is interesting, and the social venues of tea rooms and pubs are still recognisable. There is a marvellous description of London in the grip of the run-up to Christmas, which applies absolutely to us now. If you have never read this novel, I would urge you to seek it out and give it a try. It is vintage Priestley.

I’m guessing that JB Priestley is sort of in the phantom zone, not quite forgotten but not quite read anymore. Naturally if they make a cute miniseries of Angel Pavement starring Timothee Chalamet as Harold Turgis and Jennifer Lawrence as Lilian Matfield, etc etc, then Angel Pavement will sell another million immediately, as it did in 1930.

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