{"product_id":"2026100012202-secondhand-works-plays-three-volume-set","title":"Works: Plays (Three-Volume Set)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - cloth\/board in good condition\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew 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.\n\nPriestley'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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51022554235099,"sku":"2026100012202-SECONDHAND","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/e899f590-7446-44b7-9875-011065cfc274.png?v=1793664944","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012202-secondhand-works-plays-three-volume-set","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}