{"product_id":"9781408177334","title":"Coward Plays: 3: Design for Living; Cavalcade; Conversation Piece; Tonight at 8.30 (i); Still Life","description":"The third volume of Coward's plays contains some of his best work from\u003cbr\u003ethe thirties.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e Design for Living\u003c\/i\u003e - is about a triangular alliance\u003cbr\u003ebetween two men and a woman, based on friends of Coward's, which he\u003cbr\u003ewaited to write \"until she and he and I had arrived by different roads\u003cbr\u003ein our careers at a time and a place when we felt we could all three\u003cbr\u003eplay together with a more or less equal degree of success.\" \u003ci\u003eCavalcade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewas Coward's most ambitious stage project, set during the Boer War,\u003cbr\u003ewhich cost £30,000 in its day and which includes scenes of the relief\u003cbr\u003eof the sinking of the Titanic and the coming of the Jazz Age. \u003ci\u003eConversation Piece \u003c\/i\u003eis a musical comedy that Noël wrote for the Parisian\u003cbr\u003estar Yvonne Printemps and includes the song \"I'll Follow My Secret\u003cbr\u003eHeart\". \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlso in the volume are three short plays including \u003ci\u003eTonight at 8.30 -\u003cbr\u003eHands Across the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, a gentle satire of colonials and London Society;\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill Life \u003c\/i\u003ewhich became the film \u003ci\u003eBrief Encounter\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFumed Oak\u003c\/i\u003e a suburban\u003cbr\u003ecomedy about a 'worm who turns'. The volume is introduced by Sheridan\u003cbr\u003eMorley.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140560601328,"sku":"9781408177334","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781408177334_p0.jpg?v=1763718191","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781408177334","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}