Noel Coward
Noel Coward was primarily a playwright but wrote several successful thrillers and spy novels including the acclaimed novel Pomp and Circumstance. His spy short stories, collected in To Step Aside, demonstrate his sardonic wit applied to the espionage genre. His theatrical experience gave his fiction an unusual polish and timing.
Works
- Pomp and Circumstance
- To Step Aside
- Star QualityShort stories about theatre life and the world of show business
- Pretty Polly Barlow
- Bon Voyage
- Private LivesComedy of remarried divorcees reigniting passion on holiday
- Blithe SpiritComedy about a ghost haunting newlyweds in their country home
- Design for LivingComedy exploring unconventional love triangle among sophisticated trio
- Present LaughterComedy about aging actor coping with the theatre and past
- Hay FeverSparkling comedy of manners about social pretense and romantic entanglements