Noël CowardNoël Coward (1899-1973), playwright and actor, personified an elegant, witty and faintly outrageous way of life between the wars. He first achieved fame starring in his own play The Vortex in 1924, which he followed with Hay Fever (1925) and Private Lives (1930). |
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
For King and Country | 13 |
Bright Young Thing | 21 |
A frightfully depraved mind | 30 |
A talent to amuse | 39 |
Crest of the wave | 47 |
Playboy of the West End World | 58 |
A pretty exciting thing to be English | 74 |
Future indefinite | 103 |
Sailing away | 122 |
Singing at twilight | 132 |
Jamaica | 138 |
Epilogue | 148 |
Chronology | 156 |
Further Reading | 172 |
Surviving the peace | 97 |
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