Letters Of Noel Coward

Fascinating collection of Noel Coward's correspondence with the likes of Marlene Dietrich, Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Woolf, Greta Garbo and Winston Churchill. A beautiful observation of the dying art of letter writing.

With virtually all the letters in this volume previously unpublished - this a revealing new insight into the private life of a legendary figure. Coward's multi-faceted talent as an actor, writer, composer, producer and even as-war time spy(!), brought him into close contact with the great, the good and the merely ambitious in film, literature and politics. With letters to and from the likes of: Marlene Dietrich, Ian Fleming, Grahame Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Fred Astaire, Charlie Chaplin, FD Roosevelt, the Queen Mother and many more, the picture that emerges is a series of vivid sketches of Noel Coward's private relationships, and a re-examination of the man himself. Deliciously insightful, witty, perfectly bitchy, wise, loving and often surprisingly moving, this extraordinary collection gives us Coward at his cracking best. A sublime portrait of a unique artist who made an indelible mark on the 20th century, from Blitz to the Ritz and beyond.