‘A vastly talented and exceptionally versatile and wise writer’ Iris Murdoch. ‘Priestley was volcanic, fertile … and never dull’ Anthony Burgess. When a policeman arrives to interrupt a prosperous family’s dinner party and question them about the suicide of a young working-class girl, their carefully guarded secrets begin to unravel one by one. J. B. Priestley’s most celebrated play, ‘An Inspector Calls’, builds to a devastating indictment of poverty and inequality, anchored by its famous moral declaration: ‘We don’t live alone … We are responsible for each other.’ The three further plays collected here — ‘Time and the Conways’, ‘I Have Been Here Before’ and ‘The Linden Tree’ — turn to equally urgent themes: time, fate, free will and the human cost of war. If you enjoyed An Inspector Calls, you might like Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.
ISBN 13: 9780141185354
Author: J. B. Priestley
