Summer day's dream / by J.B. Priestley.
By: Priestley, J. B. (John Boynton) [author.].
Series: Oberon modern plays: Publisher: London : Oberon Books : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013Description: 1 online resource (96 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781350209084; 1350209082.Subject(s): Farm life -- Great Britain -- Drama | Country life -- England -- South Downs -- Drama | World politics -- 1945-1989 -- Drama | South Downs (England) -- Drama | Country life | Farm life | World politics | England ǂz South Downs | Great Britain | 1945-1989 | Drama & Performance Studies | Plays, playscriptsGenre/Form: Drama. | Drama.Online resources: View this item online Summary: "I spent more than half my life, when I ought to have been enjoying myself, arguing and planning and running around like a maniac, all to sell a lot of things to people I didn't know, so that I could buy a lot of things that I didn't have time to use. Sheer lunacy. And it took nothing less than an atom bomb to blow me out of it." Following a devastating nuclear war which has seen Britain bombed back into the pre-industrial past, Stephen Dawlish and his family live a quiet rural life. Until their quiet, agrarian existence is disrupted by the appearance of three representatives of the New World Order--an American, a Russian and an Indian--who have devastating plans that will end their new peaceful way of life forever.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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"I spent more than half my life, when I ought to have been enjoying myself, arguing and planning and running around like a maniac, all to sell a lot of things to people I didn't know, so that I could buy a lot of things that I didn't have time to use. Sheer lunacy. And it took nothing less than an atom bomb to blow me out of it." Following a devastating nuclear war which has seen Britain bombed back into the pre-industrial past, Stephen Dawlish and his family live a quiet rural life. Until their quiet, agrarian existence is disrupted by the appearance of three representatives of the New World Order--an American, a Russian and an Indian--who have devastating plans that will end their new peaceful way of life forever.
