Blithe Spirits

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408191521

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Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward Pdf

I will ever be grateful for the almost psychic gift that enabled me to write Blithe Spirit in five days during one of the darkest years of the war.' Written in 1941, Blithe Spirit remained the longest-running comedy in British Theatre for three decades thereafter. Plotted around the central role of one of Coward's best loved characters, a spirit medium Madame Arcati (originally performed by Margaret Rutherford) Coward's play is an escapist comedy about a man whose two previous wives return to haunt him. "A minor comic masterpiece of the lighter sort" Professor Allardyce Nicoll

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350353503

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Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward Pdf

"Some of [Coward's] most sparkling dialogue ever... This play is about something substantial - the way past relationships come back to haunt us - but it's the gossamer-like nature of the piece, its sheer levity of spirit, that makes it such an enduring achievement" - The Telegraph When socialite and novelist Charles Condomine attends a séance hosted by eccentric medium Madame Arcati, he's only hoping to gather material for his next book: he never expected to be haunted by his temperamental ex-wife, Elvira. Can Charles keep this willful spirit at bay, or will his new marriage to his second wife, Ruth, come to an untimely demise? With unforgettable characters, witty dialogue and farcical situations, Blithe Spirit ran for decades on the West End, becoming one of the most well-known plays in the British canon. This new edition is published in Methuen Drama's iconic Modern Classics series to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Coward's death and features a new introduction by Arianne Johnson Quinn.

Author : Daniel C. Herr,Joel Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041273033

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Blithe Spirits by Daniel C. Herr,Joel Wells Pdf

Author : S. D. Tucker
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781445667294

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Blithe Spirits by S. D. Tucker Pdf

Covering and analyzing a wide global selection of reported poltergeist phenomena through history, literature and society.

Author : Jill Spalding
Publisher : Alvin Rosenbaum Projects, Incorporated
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Cocktails
ISBN : 0874919150

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Blithe Spirits by Jill Spalding Pdf

Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Spiritualism
ISBN : UCSC:32106017520799

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Blithe Spirit by Charles Osborne Pdf

In this adaptation novel of Noel Coward's play, we return to the home of psychic Madame Arcati in an escapist comedy about relationships on both sides of the grave.

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350025356

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Home Chat by Noël Coward Pdf

I am shirking off the chains that have shackled me for so long – I have suddenly come to realise that I am a woman – a living, passionate, pulsating woman – it never occurred to me before. Janet Ebony and her best friend, Peter Chelsworth, are innocently sharing a sleeping compartment when their train to Paris is involved in a disastrous railway accident. Outrage and scandal ensue as Janet's husband, Paul, and her fearsome mother-in-law accuse Janet and Peter of adultery. Aghast at their families' accusations, Janet and Peter decide to take revenge by inventing an adulterous affair ... Written with Noël Coward's trademark wit and insight, Home Chat is a distinctly modern comedy about female sexuality and fidelity in a society rigidly governed by decorum and reputation. This edition was published to coincide with the first revival of the play since its premiere in 1927.

Author : Clifton Webb
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496800640

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Sitting Pretty by Clifton Webb Pdf

More than any other male movie star, the refined Clifton Webb (1889-1966) caused the movie-going public to change its image of a leading man. In a day when leading men were supposed to be strong, virile, and brave, Clifton Webb projected an image of flip, acerbic arrogance. He was able to play everything from a decadent columnist (Laura) to a fertile father (Cheaper by the Dozen and The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker), delivering lines in an urbanely clipped, acidly dry manner with impeccable timing. Sitting Pretty is his remarkable story. Long before his film career began, Webb was a child actor and later a suavely effete song-and-dance man in numerous Broadway musicals and revues. The turning point in his career came in 1941 when his good friend Noël Coward cast him in Blithe Spirit. Director Otto Preminger saw Webb's performance and cast him in Laura in 1944. Webb began to write his autobiography, but he said that he eventually had gotten "bogged down" in the process. However, he did complete six chapters and left a hefty collection of notes that he intended to use in the proposed book. His writing is as witty and sophisticated as his onscreen persona. Those six chapters, information and voluminous notes, and personal research by the coauthor provide an intimate view of an amazingly talented man's life and times.

Author : Seth Lerer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226014418

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Prospero's Son by Seth Lerer Pdf

The author uses his love of books as the backdrop for the story of his complicated relationship with his father.

Author : Luigi Pirandello
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Adultery
ISBN : 0573613079

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No One Knows how by Luigi Pirandello Pdf

Author : Allan Brick
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781469101637

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Growing Pains by Allan Brick Pdf

The episodes, scenes, recognitions of seven decades are experienced in the form of then as now. Poems go from the actual time of youth, in the section Growing Pains, on through the continuing times of growing up a process still going forward. The poems in Such is Life consider the innocence of certainty challenged by sharp awakenings to reality. The sections Peopleand Fictiondeal further with the drama of awakening. Sections on Politics and War and Religion portray the continuing struggle to find meaning, even to discover truth. Finally, End of Term is about saying goodbye.

Author : Donald Harman Akenson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 0773528903

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An Irish History of Civilization by Donald Harman Akenson Pdf

Author : Don Akenson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773572836

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Irish History of Civilization, Volume 1 by Don Akenson Pdf

In a sprawling chronicle of civilization through Irish eyes, Akenson takes us from St Patrick to Woodie Guthrie, from Constantine to John F. Kennedy, from India to the Australian outback. In two volumes of masterful storytelling he creates ironic, playful, and acerbic historical miniatures - a quixotic series of reconstructions woven into a helix in which the same historical figures reappear in radically different contexts as their narratives intersect with the larger picture.

Author : W. V. QUINE,W. V Quine
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674042438

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Quiddities by W. V. QUINE,W. V Quine Pdf

The appellation polymath is often lightly bestowed, but it can be applied with confidence to the celebrated philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine. Quine's areas of interest are panoramic, as this lively book amply demonstrates. Moving from A (alphabet) to Z (zero), Quiddities roams through more than eighty topics, each providing a full measure of piquant thought, wordplay, and wisdom, couched in easy and elegant prose--Quine at his unbuttoned best, in Donald Davidson's words. Philosophy, language, and mathematics are the subjects most fully represented; tides of entries include belief, communication, free will, idiotisms, longitude and latitude, marks, prizes, Latin pronunciation, tolerance, trinity. Even the more technical entries are larded with homely lore, anecdote, and whimsical humor. Quiddities will be a treat for admirers of Quine and for others who like to think, who care about language, and who enjoy the free play of intellect on topics large and small. For this select audience, it is an ideal book for browsing.

Author : George Amabile
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781551996974

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Rumours of Paradise/Rumours of War by George Amabile Pdf

From award-winning Canadian author George Amabile comes a collection of poems celebrating life and mourning death – and the loss of innocence that it brings. Originally published in 1995, Rumours is at once romantic and cerebral, immediate yet expansive, teeming with rich imagery.