Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Coward’s life and works
* Detailed introductions to the major texts
* All 50 plays, with individual contents tables
* Features rare dramas appearing for the first time in digital publishing
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Includes Coward’s novel, digitised here for the first time
* Rare story collections available in no other collection
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories
* Coward’s rare poetry
* Easily locate the poems or short stories you want to read
* Includes Coward’s satires – first time in digital print
* Features all three autobiographies – discover Coward’s theatrical life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
Please note: the posthumous play ‘Age Cannot Wither’ and Coward’s screenplays cannot appear due to copyright restrictions. When new works enter the public domain they will be added to the eBook as a free update.
CONTENTS:
The Plays
What Next? (1915)
Woman and Whisky (1918)
The Rat Trap (1918)
I’ll Leave It to You (1919)
The Young Idea (1921)
Sirocco (1921)
The Queen was in the Parlour (1922)
Mild Oats (1922)
Weatherwise (1923)
Fallen Angels (1923)
The Vortex (1923)
Customs House, Dover (1923)
Hay Fever (1924)
Easy Virtue (1924)
Semi-Monde (1926)
This Was a Man (1926)
The Marquise (1926)
Home Chat (1927)
Bitter Sweet (1928)
Shop-Girls (1928)
Private Lives (1929)
Some Other Private Lives (1930)
Post-Mortem (1930)
Cavalcade (1930)
Design for Living (1932)
Conversation Piece (1933)
Design for Rehearsing (1933)
Point Valaine (1934)
Tonight at 8.30 (1936)
Operette (1937)
Present Laughter (1939)
This Happy Breed (1939)
Salute to the Brave/Time Remembered (1940)
Blithe Spirit (1941)
Pacific 1860 (1946)
Peace in Our Time (1946)
Long Island Sound (1947)
Ace of Clubs (1949)
South Sea Bubble (1949)
Relative Values (1951)
Quadrille (1951)
After the Ball (1953)
Nude with Violin (1954)
Volcano (1957)
Look After Lulu! (1958)
Waiting in the Wings (1959)
Sail Away (1959)
The Girl Who Came to Supper (1963)
Suite in Three Keys (1965)
Star Quality (1967)
The Revues
London Calling! (1923)
On with the Dance (1924)
This Year of Grace (1927)
Charles B. Cochran’s 1931 Revue
The Third Little Show (1931)
Words and Music (1932)
Set to Music (1938)
Sigh No More (1945)
The Novel
Pomp and Circumstance (1960)
The Short Story Collections
To Step Aside (1939)
Star Quality (1951)
Pretty Polly Barlow (1964)
Bon Voyage and Other Stories (1967)
The Short Stories
List of Short Stories in Chronological Order
List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order
The Satires
Terribly Intimate Portraits (1922)
A Withered Nosegay (1922)
Chelsea Buns (1925)
Spangled Unicorn (1932)
The Poetry
The Poetry of Noël Coward
The Autobiographies
Present Indicative (1937)
Future Indefinite (1954)
Past Conditional (1986)