Let the People Sing (novel)

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Let the People Sing is a 1939 novel by the British writer J. B. Priestley. It examines civic politics and corruption in the small English town of Dunbury, where the music hall is due to be closed. It was adapted into a 1942 film Let the People Sing.

Bibliography

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Baxendale, John. Priestley's England: J.B. Priestley and English culture. Manchester University Press, 2007.

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Novels	Adam in Moonshine (1927) Benighted (1927) Farthing Hall (1929 with Hugh Walpole) The Good Companions (1929) Angel Pavement (1930) Faraway (1932) I'll Tell You Everything (1932 with Gerald Bullett) Wonder Hero (1933) They Walk in the City: The Lovers in the Stone Forest (1936) The Doomsday Men (1938) Let the People Sing (1939) Blackout in Gretley (1942) Daylight on Saturday (1943) Three Men in New Suits (1945) Bright Day (1946) Jenny Villiers (1947) Festival at Farbridge (1951) Low Notes on a High Level (1954) The Magicians (1954) Saturn Over the Water (1961) The Shapes of Sleep (1962) Sir Michael & Sir George (1964) Lost Empires (1965) Salt Is Leaving (1966) It's an Old Country (1967) London End (1968) Out Of Town (1968) Snoggle (1971) Found, Lost, Found (1976)
Short stories	"The Town Major of Miracourt" (1930)
Short story collections	The Other Place (1953) The Carfitt Crisis (1974)
Plays	Time Plays series The Good Companions (1931) Dangerous Corner (1932) The Roundabout (1932) Eden End (1934) Laburnum Grove (1934) Cornelius (1935) Duet in Floodlight (1935) Bees on the Boat Deck (1936) Time and the Conways (1937) I Have Been Here Before (1937) People at Sea (1937) Mystery of Greenfingers (1937) Music at Night (1938) When We Are Married (1938) Johnson Over Jordan (1939) The Long Mirror (1940) Goodnight Children (1942) They Came to a City (1943) Desert Highway (1944) How Are They at Home? (1944) An Inspector Calls (1945) Ever Since Paradise (1946) The Long Mirror (1947) The Rose and Crown (1947) The Linden Tree (1947) Home Is Tomorrow (1948) Summer Day's Dream (1949) Bright Shadow (1950) Dragon's Mouth (1952) Mother's Day (1953) Private Rooms (1953) Treasure on Pelican (1953) The White Countess (1954) Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon (1955) The Glass Cage (1957)
Poetry	The Chapman of Rhymes (1918)
Screenplays	Sing As We Go (1934) Jamaica Inn (1939) Britain at Bay (1940) Last Holiday (1950)
Non-fiction	Brief Diversions (1922) Papers from Lilliput (1922) Open House (1927) Self-selected Essays (1932) English Journey (1934) Midnight on the Desert (1937 autobiography) We Live In Two Worlds (1937 documentary) Rain Upon Godshill (1939 autobiography) British Women Go To War (1943) Margin Released (1962 autobiography) Man and Time (1964) The Edwardians (1970) Over The Long High Wall (1972) Particular Pleasures (1975) Instead Of The Trees (1977 autobiography)
Film and TV adaptations	The Old Dark House (1932 film) The Good Companions (1933 film) An Inspector Calls (1954 film) Angel Pavement (1957 TV series) The Good Companions (1957 film) The Old Dark House (1963 film) Out of the Unknown: "Level Seven" (1966 sci-fi series) Angel Pavement (1967 TV series) An Inspector Calls (1982 film) Lost Empires (1986) An Inspector Calls (2015 film)
Related	Jacquetta Hawkes (third wife) Mary Priestley (daughter)

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