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Priestley's third book in his "Chapters of Autobiography" series and in fact the last book he wrote. This is very parred down compared to the two volumes he wrote in the 1930's in fact the autobiography proper only consists of 100 pages, the rest of the book consists of an essay "The Happy Dream" that he'd written several years previously and some new afterthoughts on the essay. Priestley is here as consistently entertaining as he usually is, but you can't help wishing he'd gone into more depth.
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John Boynton Priestley, the son of a schoolmaster, was born in Bradford in September 1894, and after schooling he worked for a time in the local wool trade. Following the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, Priestley joined the British Army, and was sent to France --in 1915 taking part in the Battle of Loos. After being wounded in 1917 Priestley returned to England for six months; then, after going
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