Offers up a selection of Noël Coward's lesser-known works. Salute to the Brave/Time Remembered (1940) follows Leila Heseldyne after she has fled to America, leaving a war-torn Britain and her husband behind; Long Island Sound (1947) sees a writer coerced into a riotous flock of high flying society people with turbulent results; and Volcano (1957) depicts a volcanic eruption as it punctuates the dubious conduct of six individuals on a fictional South Sea island. This volume also includes Design for Rehearsing (1933), Coward's private satire on the way he, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne worked on Design for Living. Age Cannot Wither (1967), Coward's last and unfinished play completes the collection, portraying the boozy reunion of three women in their sixties, who meet without fail every year to reminisce.

"Reissued with ... revised introduction and chronology"--T.p. verso (v. 1-5).

1. Hay fever ; The vortex ; Fallen angels ; Easy virtue -- 2. Private lives ; Bitter-sweet ; The marquise ; Post-mortem -- 3. Design for living ; Cavalcade ; Conversation piece ; Tonight at 8.30. Hands across the sea ; Still life ; Fumed oak -- 4. Blithe spirit ; Present laughter ; This happy breed ; Tonight at 8.30. Ways and means ; The astonished heart ; "Red peppers" -- 5. Relative values ; Look after Lulu! ; Waiting in the wings ; Suite in three keys -- 6. Semi-monde ; Point Valaine ; South sea bubble ; Nude with violin -- 7. Quadrille ; "Peace in our time" ; Tonight at 8.30. We were dancing ; Shadow play ; Family album ; Star chamber.