An Inspector Calls & Other Plays: Time & The Conways; I Have Been Here Before; An Inspector Calls

J. B. Priestley

Previously published as Time and the Conways and Other Plays, J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls and Other Plays collects four groundbreaking works by a master playwright in Penguin Modern Classics. An Inspector Calls, written at a time when society was undergoing sweeping transformations, has been pro...

Rivers of Gold

Hugh Thomas

The first part of his trilogy on the Spanish Empire, Hugh Thomas' "Rivers of Gold" brings the rise of Spain's global empire vividly to life, capturing the spirit of an ebullient age. Inspired by hopes of both riches and of converting native people to Christianity, the Spanish adventurers of the fifteent...