Private Lives: An Intimate Comedy in Three Acts - Softcover

Coward, Sir Noel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1494002140 ISBN 13: 9781494002145

Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC, 2013

Synopsis

This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1494002140
• ISBN 13: 9781494002145
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96