Priestley Collected Plays Two Author:J. B. Priestley They Came to a City, written at the height of the Second World War, expresses the sharp differences in opinion about the post-war world among various sections of the British people. Summer Day's Dreams is a fantastical comedy set in a Britain bombed back into the pre-industrial past in which three representatives of the new wor... more »ld order disturb the tranquil lives of three generations of an English family. The themes of hypocrisy and redemption are brought to the fore in The Glass Cage, when three black sheep of a respectable Toronto clan are grudgingly welcomed back into the family home..« less