PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS : AN INSPECTOR CALLS AND OTHER PLAYS PB B FORMAT – J B PRIESTLEY

We don t live alone … We are responsible for each other A policeman interrupts a rich family s dinner to question them about the suicide of a young working-class girl. As their guilty secrets are gradually revealed over the course of the evening, An Inspector Calls , J. B. Priestley s most famous play, shows us the terrible consequences of poverty and inequality. The other powerful plays in this collection – Time and the Conways , I Have Been Here Before and The Linden Tree – explore time, fate, free will and the effects of war. A vastly talented and exceptionally versatile and wise writer Iris Murdoch Priestley was volcanic, fertile … and never dull Anthony Burgess If you enjoyed An Inspector Calls, you might like Arthur Miller s Death of a Salesman, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.