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Interzone July(169) — 2001

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The Christmas Reader — 1986

The wonderful anthology of verse and prose, short stories, reminiscences and diary entries, ranging from the traditional to the subversive, the whimsical to the sinister, the ironic to the tragic. Exquisitely illustrated with black and white drawings from many periods, The Christmas Reader is a perfect source-book for reading aloud to family and friends.

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Nightingale B., An Introduction to Fifty Modern British Plays — 1982 (Pan Literature Guides)

Designed as a series to provide a comprehensive introductionto nglish, American and European literature, each title examies one particular form and period, discussing in detail the important writers andtheir major works in the contextto their times.

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Coward N., Plays: Three. Plays Vol.three

The third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work from the thirties. Design for Living - is about a triangular alliance between two men and a woman, based on friends of Coward's, which hewaited to write "until she and he and I had arrived by different roads in our careers at a time and a place when we felt we could all three play together with a more or less equal degree of success." Cavalcade was Coward's most ambitious stage project, set during the Boer War,which cost GBP30,000 in its day and which includes scenes of the relief of the sinking of the Titanic and the coming of the Jazz Age. Conversation Piece is a musical comedy that Noel wrote for the Parisianstar Yvonne Printemps and includes the song "I'll Follow My SecretHeart". Also in the volume are three short plays including Tonight at 8.30 -Hands Across the Sea, a gentle satire of colonials and London Society;Still Life which became the film Brief Encounter and Fumed Oak a suburban comedy about a 'worm who turns'. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley.

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Coward R., Diana. The Portrait — 2004

This book, which is dedicated to the humanitarian work of Diana, Princess of Wales, has been authorized by The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund and by the Estate of the late Princess.The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund was set up in September 1997, just days after the Princess's tragic death. It seeks to create a living memorial to the Princess, by giving recognition and support to people living on the margins of society and helping them change their lives. Since it began, the Memorial Fund has pledged over ?50 million to over 300 organizations, giving grants to charities in the UK and overseas and using its profile to speak out on issues of the day. It continues, for example, to champion the needs of people whose lives are devastated by landmines and other explosive remnants of war. In Africa, it helps to bring care and dignity in death to those who are dying of HIV/AIDS and other life-limiting illnesses and to support their families, especially children, who are facing the loss of a loved one. In the UK the focus is on young people who are specially vulnerable or stigmatized. In all these cases, the humanitarian inspiration of the Princess continues to bring hope and make a difference to the lives of the most disadvantaged people.

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Coward N., Plays: One. Plays

This first volume in the Coward Collection contains four plays written within a two year period when Cowardand the century were still in their 20s. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley,Coward's first biographer. Hay Fever, a comedy of badmanners, concerns a weekend with friends of the Bliss family, who haveall been invited independently for a weekend at their country housenear Maidenhead. The Vortexwas a controversial drama in its time, introducing drug-addiction ontothe stage at a time when alcoholism was barely mentioned. Fallen Angels, which is written for two star actresseswas described as 'degenerate', 'vile', 'obscene', 'shocking' - thesecond half of the play is entirely taken up with an alcoholic duologuebetween the two women. Easy Virtue is an elegant, laconic tribute to alost world of drawing-room dramas, no other writer went more directlyto the jugular of that moralistic, tight-lipped but fundamentallyhypocritical 20s society. "He is simply a phenomenon, and one that is unlikely to occur everagain in theatre history" Terence Rattigan

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Coward N., Plays: Two. Plays

The plays in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary skill andversatility Coward's writing achieved in the late 1920s. The volume containshis best-loved classic, Private Lives, which was an immeditate hit whenit was first staged in 1930. Coward's sparkling dialogue and reparteehave ensured the play's popularity ever since. Of Bitter-Sweet in 1929 Noël Coward wrote that it was "a musical that gaveme more complete satisfaction than anything else I had yet written. Notespecially on acount of its dialogue or its lyrics or its music or itsproduction but as a whole." The Marquise is an "eighteenth centurycomedy" filled with maids and duels, whilst Post-Mortem is avilification of war that contains some of Coward's most powerful writing.

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Coward N., Plays: Four. Plays

Volume Four of Noel Coward's plays contains a selection of Coward'splays from the thirties and forties which includes Blithe Spirit, acomedy that centres around the spirit medium Madame Arcati. The playthat mocks sudden death was produced at precisely the moment when bombswere bringing it to Britain "I shall ever be grateful, for the almostpsychic gift that enabled me to write Blithe Spirit in five days duringone of the darkest years of the war." The play was for years thelongest-running comedy in the history of British theatre. PresentLaughter follows the life of Garry Essendine, a world-weary,middle-aged projection of the dilettante, debonair persona -self-obsessed and dressing-gowned who struts through the play like aneducated peacock. It is a comedy about the 'theatricals' that Noel bestknew and loved, and was originally a star vehicle for himself. It isthe closest to an autobiographical play that Coward ever wrote. ThisHappy Breed is a saga of a lower middle-class family; and three shorterpieces fromTonight at 8.3 0 - is a farce set in the South of France,and serves as an oblique tribute to Frederick Lonsdale; The AstonishedHeart is about the decay of a psychiatrist's mind through personalsexual obsession. Red Peppers, which closes the volume, was a cynicaltribute to the lost music halls of the First World War.

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