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by J.B. Priestley

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how can i read the entire book online please?

Calum Smith Audio book, Audioble. Borrowbox apple and android stores must have libary card.

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how to read the book? i want to know.

Nikoloz Gabadze can you givme a link ?
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did someone understand the end?

Matěj Brouček I found that easy. It is not a realistic play. There's the five villains, who are "real", and there's the inspector, who is not "real". The inspector …moreI found that easy. It is not a realistic play. There's the five villains, who are "real", and there's the inspector, who is not "real". The inspector stands for some kind of force that will remind the villains of their sins. They will be held to account. It is unclear, and of secondary importance, what the practical effects of the inspector's intervention will be. Maybe he just represents "conscience" that will haunt them forever. Maybe it's the more physical threat of them getting arrested, judged and punished. I'm inclined to see the first time the inspector calls as their conscience knocking at the door, while the second visit will lead to their well-deserved punishment, like, getting sent to a forced labour camp in Siberia. The inspector is called Goole, which, as quite a few people noticed, sounds like "ghoul". Now Karl Marx wrote that "a spectre" ("ein Gespenst") is haunting Europe, namely, the spectre of communism. "A "ghoul" is a type of "spectre", but it's more, er, ghoulish than a spectre. If we assume this, then the inspector is "communism", that avenging angel of the downtrodden. Also note that "An Inspector Calls" sounds almost like "A Spectre Calls".
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