An Inspector Calls and Other Plays (Penguin Modern Classics)

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A policeman interrupts a rich family's dinner to question them about the suicide of a young working-class girl. The play is both fatalistic (we keep making the same mistakes because we don’t know enough ahead of time to avoid them) and optimistic (with effort and perhaps luck, we can know); it could’ve been popular in the 60s. During the Second World War Priestley became a popular and influential broadcaster with his famous Postscripts that followed the nine o'clock news BBC Radio on Sunday evenings. Priestley manages to capture the moral complexity of our everyday lives and just goes to show how our behaviour could affect others. A policeman interrupts a rich family's dinner to question them about the suicide of a young working-class girl.

I Have Been Here Before', another 'time' play, is based on a theory of Time and Human Life as a recurring cycle.

The play isn’t merely a period piece either, though it’s set in spring 1912, shortly before the sailing of Titanic, which is mentioned as imminent, and (we know) not long before another calamity, that of the First World War.

he began writing novels, and with his third and fourth novels, The Good Companions and Angel Pavement, he scored a great success and established an international reputation. This particular version has no notes whatsoever to help - not that I esentially needed them, but if this were being purchased by a student they should bear that in mind. Priestley here encapsulates many of the things I love about twentieth-century writing: chiefly among them the true realisation and reckoning with the passage of time in a turbulent century. B. Priestley masterpiece is joined by three other powerful plays Time and the Conways, I Have Been Here Before and The Linden Tree. The class and power issues so often addressed by Priestly are as relevant now as they were back then.What I really enjoy about Priestley’s work is that the family unit, and what it means when a family grows up, is really explored here. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you.

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. Again, time makes its entrance here in the form of history, on which Professor Linden has his own refreshingly different views. he began writing novels, and with his third and fourth novels, The Good Companions and Angel Pavement , he scored a great success and established an international reputation. In the last play, The Linden Tree, the effect of the passage of time on human beings and families is explored in a conventional manner, making it the most "ordinary" of the lot. I got to the second to last page of the play and the text was split between two pages, with only of those pages being cut so that I could (sort of) read the text, and there was a sticker on the other page, with the text having being printed on top of this.

B. Priestley’s masterpiece is joined by three other powerful plays – Time and the Conways, I Have Been Here Before and The Linden Tree. Please note we do not offer discretionary exchange or refunds on Gift Vouchers, Sale Items, or damaged products.