An Inspector Calls and Other Plays
"An Inspector Calls", first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. While holding its audience with the gripping tension of a detective thriller, it is also a philosophical play about social conscience an...
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| Language: | English |
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London
Penguin Books Ltd
2000
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| Series: | Penguin classics
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Add Tag | Summary: | "An Inspector Calls", first produced in 1946 when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has recently enjoyed an enormously successful revival. While holding its audience with the gripping tension of a detective thriller, it is also a philosophical play about social conscience and the crumbling of middle class values. "Time and the Conways" and "I Have Been Here Before" belong to Priestley's 'time'plays, in which he explores the idea of precognition and pits fate against free will. "The Linden Tree" also challenges preconceived ideas of history when Professor Linden comes into conflict with his family about how life should be lived after the war |
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| Item Description: | This collection previously published as: Time and the Conways and other plays. 1969. |
| Physical Description: | 302 pages 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780141185354 |
New short plays. Twenty-six efforts at pornography, by Carey Harrison; [and], Birdbath, by Leonard Melfi; [and], The carrying of X from A to Z, Dis, The love suicides at Havering, [and] Seven stations on the road to exile, by Roger Howard