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The Letters of Noël Coward: Diaries, Letters and Essays

Autor Noël Coward Editat de Barry Day
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 sep 2008
'A uniquely charming and enticing journey through a remarkable life.Coward's own record is made all the more delightful by the wise andhelpful interpolations of Barry Day, the soundest authority on theMaster that there is.' Stephen Fry 'Precise, witty, remarkably observed and gloriously English' Dame Judi Dench 'Barry Day's analysis is both perceptive and irresistible' Lord Richard AttenboroughWith virtually all the letters in this volume previously unpublished -this is a revealing new insight into the private life of a legendaryfigure. Coward's multi-faceted talent as an actor, writer, composer,producer and even as a war-time spy(!), brought him into close contactwith the great, the good and the merely ambitious in film, literatureand politics.With letters to and from the likes of: George BernardShaw, Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill, Greta Garbo (she wrote askinghim to marry her), Marlene Dietriech, Ian Fleming, Graham Greene,Evelyn Waugh, Fred Astaire, Charlie Chaplin, FD Roosevelt, the QueenMother and many more, the picture that emerges is a series of vividsketches of Noel Coward's private relationships, and a re-examinationof the man himself. Deliciously insightful, witty, perfectly bitchy,wise, loving and often surprisingly moving, this extraordinarycollection gives us Coward at his crackling best. A sublime portrait ofa unique artist who made an indelible mark on the 20th century, fromthe Blitz to the Ritz and beyond.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781408106754
ISBN-10: 1408106752
Pagini: 800
Ilustrații: 150 Photographs
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 44 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Seria Diaries, Letters and Essays

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Contains letters both to and from some of the most famousnames in 20th century society: Virginia Woolf, Marlene Dietriech, GretaGarbo, Evelyn Waugh, Winston Churchill, The Queen Mother...

Notă biografică

Barry Day is widely regarded as the leading authority on Coward. He has been an advisor to the Coward estate for over 20 years and is the only person with unlimited access to the Coward archive.

Descriere

'A uniquely charming and enticing journey through a remarkable life.' Stephen Fry
Withvirtually all the letters in this volume previously unpublished - thisis a revealing new insight into the private life of a legendary figure.