Design for Living: A Comedy in Three Acts - Softcover

Coward, Sir Noel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1432585894 ISBN 13: 9781432585891

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

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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: Kessinger Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1432585894
• ISBN 13: 9781432585891
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 152