The Lettersof Noel Coward

Lovely copy of this 1st paperback edition. Book is fine in French card covers with no marks or inscriptions.With virtually all the letters in this volume previously unpublished - this is a revealing new insight into the private life of a legendary figure. Coward's multifaceted talent as an actor, writer, composer, producer and even as a wartime spy, brought him into close contact with the great, the good and the merely ambitious in film, literature and politics. With letters to and from some of the most famous names in history: George Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill, Greta Garbo (she wrote asking him to marry her) , Marlene Dietrich, Ian Fleming, Graham Greene, Alec Guinness, Gertie Lawrence, David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Charlie Chaplin, FD Roosevelt, the Queen Mother and many more, the picture that emerges is a series of vivid sketches of Noel Coward's private relationships, and a re-examination of the man himself. Deliciously insightful, witty, perfectly bitchy, wise, loving and surprisingly moving, this extraordinary collection gives us Coward at his crackling best, from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond. …