The Letters of Noel Coward (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307391001)

Lavishly illustrated and annotated, this first and definitive collection of letters to and from the great English playwright provides a divine portrait of an age, from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond.

"Superb.... The portrait of a complex, charming, driven, serious and, frankly, courageous artist." --The Wall Street Journal

The incomparable No? Coward loved to correspond with friends, enemies, the famous and infamous, the talented and the powerful, including Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill, Greta Garbo, Laurence Olivier, Katharine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Lawrence of Arabia, Somerset Maugham, and many more. Granted unlimited access to the Coward archive, Barry Day presents many never-published letters and has unearthed new, startling evidence of Coward's wartime work as a spy. Along with 191 rare photographs, these letters bring to life the people and events that shaped the twentieth century--and a remarkable man who made his own indelible mark at the heart of it.

Author: No? Coward
ISBN-10: 0307391000
ISBN-13: 9780307391001
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 03/10/2009
Pages: 800
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.34w x 1.56d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 03/29/2009 pg. 20