An Inspector Calls and Other Plays
Title | An Inspector Calls and Other Plays PDF eBook |
Author | J. B. Priestley |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2001-03-29 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 014118535X |
An inspector calls, the title play in this collection, was written inside a week in 1944. Inspector Goole, investigating a girl's death, calls on the Birlings, an outwardly virtuous household.
An Inspector Calls
Title | An Inspector Calls PDF eBook |
Author | John Boynton Priestley |
Publisher | Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780822205722 |
The members of an eminently respectable British family reveal their true natures over the course of an evening in which they are subjected to a routine inquiry into the suicide of a young girl.
An Inspector Calls and Other Plays
Title | An Inspector Calls and Other Plays PDF eBook |
Author | J B Priestley |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2001-03-29 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0141917113 |
'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.
An Inspector Calls
Title | An Inspector Calls PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Cobley |
Publisher | Classical Comics: Original Tex |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 9781907127236 |
Graphic novel that features the entire script of Priestley's 1945 play. The Birling family are spending a happy evening celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling to Gerald Croft - a marriage that will result in the merging of two successful local businesses. Yet, just when everything seems to be going so well, they receive a surprise visit from an Inspector Goole who is investigating the suicide of a young girl. As the Inspector reveals more about the circumstances that led to the death of Eva Smith, each member of the family comes under the spotlight, and questions of guilt and responsibility are raised.
A Director Calls
Title | A Director Calls PDF eBook |
Author | Wendy Lesser |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780520212626 |
Presents the details of director Stephen Daldry's work on the acclaimed play, "An Inspector Calls," in an attempt to reveal his intepretative approach to theater
Angel Pavement
Title | Angel Pavement PDF eBook |
Author | J. B. Priestley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2018-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781912101528 |
An Inspector Calls
Title | An Inspector Calls PDF eBook |
Author | Michael White |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021-04-30 |
Genre | |
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Charlie Horse has very set ideas of just how his pub should be run. No food (apart from crisps and nuts) and very definite ideas about what kind of customers are welcome in his hostelry. Unbeknown to Charlie however, there is something very odd indeed going on in "The Bucket and Shovel", and for just this once, Charlie is going to be the last person to find out. Because very shortly, an inspector is going to call...