The Good Companions Author:J. B. Priestley, John Boynton Priestly This generously engaging and savory novel sweeps one through the English countryside, along the high-road of romantic adventure. Mr. Priestley has brought together by great good fortune, the amazing combination of a Yorkshire laborer, a maiden lady of thirty-seven summers, and a mad-cap Cambridge school teacher with a musical bent. He has joined... more » their fates with those of a troupe of travelling players, and he has told us a story that is as meaty as a plum pudding, and as gay and timely in wit as The Pickwick Papers of another day. This is a tale of people who dared to be free from the cares of the world, from the routine of work, from the ties of family, who joined hands with Fate and found on the open road the good companionship that makes life full and gay.
More than one editions has been published under this ISBN. Originally published 12/1989, this novel has been published many times.« less