{"product_id":"hay-fever-nozl-coward-9781350354111","title":"Hay Fever","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This 1925 comedy of manners that's funny yet also unorthodox and unsettling... a celebration of abnormality and at the same time a disquieting study of both the pleasures and the pains of not being able to restrain oneself.\" - \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen four guests, all invited by different members of the Bliss family, arrive for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead, they're expecting a idyllic retreat. But this peaceful promise is quickly trounced when the self-absorbed eccentricities of the Blisses are trained on the guests, who leave the country mansion humiliated and embarrassed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst produced in 1925, \u003ci\u003eHay Fever\u003c\/i\u003e is a technical masterpiece, seamlessly combining high farce with a comedy of manners, and delivering Coward his first major commercial success. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new edition is published in Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Classics series to coincide with the 125th anniversary of Coward's birth and features a new introduction by Michael Billington.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Noël Coward\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350354112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350354111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Methuen Drama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/29\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Noël Coward","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48153598329087,"sku":"9781350354111","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ff6396ea-096c-4b25-ab3d-6e23608a6ad8.jpg?v=1770784557","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hay-fever-nozl-coward-9781350354111","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}