An Inspector Calls - J.B. Priestley Reviews

It is an average book, would be better seen as a play obviously. A bit boring written down on paper but comes to life on the stage. Well written, I suggest you do not read this but watch the video or go and see it in theatre. The play 'An Inspector Calls' was written in 1945 by John Boynton Priestley. It was during World War II that Priestley ...

I have studied An Inspector Calls for my GCSE English literature coursework, so here is the basic outline of the story... An Inspector Calls was written in 1945, just after the second world war. It is set on a spring evening in 1912, part of the Edwardian era. The first production of the play was performed in London at the New ...

The play ࠉInspector Calls” was written in 1945, but the original ideas were from 1944 – 45. This is after all the events of World War 2. The play was first performed in Moscow on the 1st October. The play is set in 1912, in this period of time there was a serious class divide, the poor and the rich normally had nothing to do ...

I read ‘An Inspector Calls’ by J.B Priestley for my English GCSE and I was pleasantly surprised to find it not at all like the usual rubbish our school forces us students to read! In fact, it was quite the opposite, and I found the play extremely enjoyable. The play is set in mid-1900 England, at the home of a respectable ...

Let me start by telling you the intro to this book, some of you may have heard of this book when sitting your GCSE's as you may have had to study it. This book is pretty old, but still a classic none the less. It starts with a family having dinner, all chatting happily when there's a knock on the door, an inspector calls. A body has ...

I read the play an Inspector Calls for my English GCSE. It is about a comfortable middle class family who are having a nice night with a future son in law when all of a sudden an Inspector comes and says the family is responsible for the death of a young girl, Eva Smith. The whole family deny responsibility but the Inspector goes through the ...

I have recently had to read 'An Inspector Calls' by J.B. Priestley in school for my GCSE English, and I have to say that I enjoyed the book immensely. The play tells the story of a middle class, stuck up family who, together as group, cause the death of a young girl named Eva Smith. The father is a self professed ...

This is a very complex and intricately woven play that leaves the reader/ audience in a kind of surreal state. A girl kills herself and all of the members of the Birling family have reason to blame themselves for the death. The scene is set at the engagement party of Birling's daughter and the intensity of the plot grows and grows until the ...