The Noel Coward Reader
Barry Day, Editor and Commentator
Language: English
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2010
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- Hardcover
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Bump at top and bottom of dustjacket spine, elsewise a fine, bright, clean, tight copy sans other flaws. "The Noel Coward Reader" is a must-have book for those who luxuriated in the collection of his letters; for those who adore his work and those who are just discovering the delights of his writing." ILLUSTRATED in black-and-white photography with accompanying descriptive captions. 'The New York Review of Books' Daniel Mendelsohn's review exclaims: "Barry Day's rich new collection of Coward's letters.evokes, with great narrative verve and a gratifying richness of detail, (Coward's) entire career.(The book is) meticulous artfully structured.There is much to dazzle here in just the way we expect from a very Noel Coward sort of person.A splendid collection." 396 pages. GM4.
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- Title
- The Noel Coward Reader
- Author
- Barry Day, Editor and Commentator
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0307273377
- ISBN 13
- 9780307273376
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Here is a book that Noël Coward did write; jokes he did make . . . No gleeful misquotations here . . . only the best of Cowards best.
Barry Day, editor of the acclaimed Letters of Noël Coward, who knows more about Coward and his writing than almost anyone, has brought together in one volume a Coward reader any Coward readeror Coward appreciatorwill delight in.
Its hard to believe that, to date, there has never been a Noël Coward reader; this volume marks the very first.
Here are scenes from Cowards plays, The Vortex, Blithe Spirit, Private Lives, and Design for Living . . . from his film screenplays, Brief Encounter and the previously unpublished script for In Which We Serve . . . from his only published novel, Pomp and Circumstance, as well as four of his best short stories.
Included, as well, is his verse, in which Coward reveals the secret heart behind the surface wit of his more formal work . . .
And here, too, are the lyrics of his sublimely Coward songs: Mad Dogs and Englishmen . . . The Stately Homes of England . . . Ill See You Again . . . Someday Ill Find You . . . Mad About the Boy . . . Sail Away . . . Mrs. Worthington . . . and much more that embodies what Coward hoped would be his epitaph: He was much loved, because he made people laugh and cry.
Eddie Cantor said Noël Coward was the British George M. Cohan . . . The most brilliant contribution England ever made to American show business.
The Noël Coward Reader is a must-have book for those who luxuriated in the collection of his letters; for those who adore his work and those who are just discovering the delights of his writing.
Kenneth Tynan said of Coward, Theatrically speaking, it was Coward who took sophistication out of the refrigerator and put it on the hob . . . Even the youngest of us will know, in fifty years time, precisely what is meant by a very Noël Coward sort of person.
Those who read The Noël Coward Reader will agree: this is a very Noël Coward sort of book.
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About the Author
Barry Day was born in England and received his MA from Balliol College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), a Trustee of the Noël Coward Foundation and was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to British culture in the U.S.A. He lives in New York, London, and Palm Beach.
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