The Noel Coward diaries

Journals chronicling the last thirty years of Coward's life provide a candid account of his theatrical career on both sides of the Atlantic and a revealing, entertaining portrait of Coward, himself

The Noel Coward Diaries

Biographies & Memoirs

Noël Coward

Arts & Literature

Little,Brown & Co

Plays: Two

GROVE PRESS

Noel Coward Autobiography

METHUEN

Plays: v. 1 (Master playwrights series)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Plays: v. 3 (Master playwrights series)

Eyre Methuen Ltd.

Plays: v. 4 (Master playwrights series)

First published in 1960, Pomp and Circumstance, Coward's only novel, was greeted with wide critical acclaim. 'A South Sea Bubble of a book it is, with a Royal Visit expected on the Island of Samolo, and the narrator, a mother of three, dealing with everything from chicken-pox to the amours of a visiting Duchess' (Daily Telegraph); 'If there is anywhere on earth where the old Coward world still credibly lingers on, it is probably a fairly peaceful tropical colony ruled over by a British Governor General . . . Coward's long cast list might have walked out of one of his better comedies' (Evening Standard); 'It is all good, near-clean fun, magnificently readable' (Sunday Times).

Pomp and Circumstance

Literary

Methuen Publishing

Plays: v. 5 (The Master playwrights)

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

This one-volume edition contains the complete collection of Coward's twenty short stories, spanning fifty years of his working life. Written with Coward's inimitable poise and wit, the stories variously describe back-stage intrigues, Hollywood champagne breakfasts, suburban romances and gossip round the captain's table. He reveals himself as a consummate prose stylist demonstrating why, for all his success in virtually every other field of entertainment, he returned again and again to the short story.

The collected short stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

First produced in 1925, Hay Fever is technically a masterpiece. A comedy of bad manners which starts with the arrival of four guests, invited independently by different members of the Bliss family for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead. The promise of an idyllic and peaceful weekend is quickly trounced by the self-absorbed eccentricities of the family who leave the guests to slink away humiliated, embarrassed and abandoned.
 "It does not date... it is in the highest mood of fantastic comedy, it is deliciously heartless and therefore delicioiusly alive and fresh" The Times

Hay Fever (Modern Classics)

Humor & Entertainment

Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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