| The Letters of Noël Coward Contributor(s): Coward, Noël (Author), Day, Barry (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1408106752 ISBN-13: 9781408106754 Publisher: Methuen Drama OUR PRICE: $33.73 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Letters - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1.59" H x 5.06" W x 7.81" (1.69 lbs) 798 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Coward, Noel: - Noel Coward was born in 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex. He made his name as a playwright with The Vortex (1924), in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Private Lives (1933), Design for Living (1933) and Blithe Spirit (1941). During the war he wrote screenplays such as Brief Encounter (1944) and In Which We Serve (1942). In the fifties he began a new career as a cabaret entertainer. He published volumes of verse and a novel (Pomp and Circumstance, 1960), two volumes of autobiography and four volumes of short stories: To Step Aside (1939), Star Quality (1951), Pretty Polly Barlow (1964) and Bon Voyage (1967). He was knighted in 1970 and died three years later in Jamaica. |