Bright Day

Bright day or spells earlier years is a novel by English writer John Boynton Priestley. The original was published in 1946 under the title Bright Day.

Action

The fifty -year-old British screenwriter Gregory Dawson, returned despite great success in Hollywood in 1940 in his home, seeks solitude of a country hotel in Cornwall to finish a screenplay. Besides, he thinks about his future. Surprisingly, he meets among hotel guests on an elderly couple that he knew a short episode of his youth as a couple Nixon. The memory of these two formative years, little by little in such a wealth of detail in his memory that he lived through the bygone era again.

The phase in question, his life takes place in the years 1912-1914 in the fictional northern English city Bruddersford ( formed from the names Bradford and Huddersfield). The twenty -year-old orphaned Gregory Dawson, who lives in Bruddersford with relatives, but has little social contact, falls into the city is often a group of happy people, which he considers a family and their friends, he would like to include. But that seems beyond his reach. When he finally accepts a teaching position in Rohwollehandel he notes amazed that the head of this branch, John Alington, the father of that family. Alington behaves the shy but talented Gregory against very friendly and encouraging, and Gregory's dream come true: He grows into the Friends of the Alington family that mainly connects him a love of music, and experienced a lot of good and The defining with them and their friends.

Unfortunately, happiness is short-lived. The Nixon that Dawson will meet again later in that hotel, appear to verify Alingtons management, and pushing yourself too reckless in his personal life. Within the formerly harmonious family Alington develop jealousies and rivalries, culminating in the supposed accidental death of daughter Eva. The family is falling apart, John Alington loses his position and health. The emerging war finally destroyed the rest of the beautiful time.

After completion of his screenplay Gregory Dawson noted that re- live through this period has an impact on his presence. He hits a very good offer to return to Hollywood, and has dedicated his life to promoting the future of a group of young, idealistic filmmaker in London.

Expenditure

• Magic earlier years. Translated by Marinette Chenaud, Franz Ehrenwirth Verlag, Munich 1980
• Bright day. Translated by Marinette Chenaud, Hallwag -Verlag Bern

• Literary work
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literature ( English )
• John Boynton Priestley
• Novel, epic