Works: Plays (Three-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few writers captured the conscience of twentieth-century Britain with the same commanding force as J. B. Priestley, whose dramatic output stands as a towering monument to social realism, moral inquiry, and theatrical innovation. This handsome three-volume set — Plays I, Plays II, and Plays III — gathers the most celebrated works from Priestley's remarkable career for the stage, presenting a comprehensive anthology that spans his full dramatic range, from the tense domestic suspense of An Inspector Calls and the time-bending mystery of Time and the Conways to the warmly comic and the bracingly political. Priestley's plays are distinguished by their deceptively accessible surfaces concealing layers of urgent social commentary — challenging class complacency, exposing moral hypocrisy, and interrogating the nature of time and memory with the deftness of a born storyteller. His theatrical voice is simultaneously populist and intellectual, commanding the drawing room and the wider public square with equal authority. Presented in a beautifully bound collector's edition, this set is an essential acquisition for any serious student of British drama, and for the general reader, it poses a question that lingers long after the curtain falls: how much do we truly owe one another?
Author: J. B. Priestley
Format: Hardback
Genre: Plays
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few writers captured the conscience of twentieth-century Britain with the same commanding force as J. B. Priestley, whose dramatic output stands as a towering monument to social realism, moral inquiry, and theatrical innovation. This handsome three-volume set — Plays I, Plays II, and Plays III — gathers the most celebrated works from Priestley's remarkable career for the stage, presenting a comprehensive anthology that spans his full dramatic range, from the tense domestic suspense of An Inspector Calls and the time-bending mystery of Time and the Conways to the warmly comic and the bracingly political. Priestley's plays are distinguished by their deceptively accessible surfaces concealing layers of urgent social commentary — challenging class complacency, exposing moral hypocrisy, and interrogating the nature of time and memory with the deftness of a born storyteller. His theatrical voice is simultaneously populist and intellectual, commanding the drawing room and the wider public square with equal authority. Presented in a beautifully bound collector's edition, this set is an essential acquisition for any serious student of British drama, and for the general reader, it poses a question that lingers long after the curtain falls: how much do we truly owe one another?