The Letters of Noel Coward-Fast Shipping

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

“Superb…. The portrait of a complex, charming, driven, serious and, frankly, courageous artist.” —The Wall Street Journal

The incomparable Noël 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 tothe Coward archive, Barry Day presents many never-published letters and has unearthednew, 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—anda remarkable man who made his own indelible mark at the heart of it.