The wealthy Birling family is celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling to Gerald Croft. They are confident, capitalist, and arrogant. Their dinner is interrupted by the arrival of Inspector Goole.
A knock at the door broke the murmur. A man stood on the doorstep, not a guest and not in a coat of privilege. He wore a plain overcoat, damp at the hem, and he held a small notebook. “I am here about a girl named Elsie Harper,” he said. His voice was calm; it moved through the room like a colder wind. an inspector calls heinemann pdf
An Inspector Calls is still in copyright. J.B. Priestley died in 1984, meaning his work is protected by copyright in the UK until 70 years after the author’s death (until 2054) and similarly under international law. The Heinemann edition, as a published arrangement of that work, also holds its own copyright. The wealthy Birling family is celebrating the engagement