Future Indefinite: An Autobiography (Da Capo Paperback) - Softcover

Coward, Noel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306801264 ISBN 13: 9780306801266

Publisher: Da Capo Press, 1980

Synopsis

The sophisticated British playwright recalls his experiences during the war years, recapturing the feeling of fear that often overshadowed people's everyday activities

About this title

About the Author:

Noël Coward was born in 1899 in Teddington, Middlesex. He made his name as a playwright with The Vortex (1924), in which he also appeared. His numerous other successful plays included Fallen Angels (1925), Hay Fever (1925), Private Lives (1933), Design for Living (1933) and Blithe Spirit (1941). During the war he wrote screenplays such as Brief Encounter (1944) and In Which We Serve (1942). In the fifties he began a new career as a cabaret entertainer. He published volumes of verse and a novel (Pomp and Circumstance, 1960), two volumes of autobiography and four volumes of short stories: To Step Aside (1939), Star Quality (1951), Pretty Polly Barlow (1964) and Bon Voyage (1967). He was knighted in 1970 and died three years later in Jamaica.

About this edition

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0306801264
• ISBN 13: 9780306801266
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352