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Modern Classics eBook Series

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  • Hay Fever

    by Noël Coward ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    First produced in 1925, Hay Fever is technically a masterpiece. A comedy of bad manners which starts with the arrival of four guests, invited independently by different members of the Bliss family for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead. The promise of an idyllic and peaceful weekend is quickly trounced by the self-absorbed eccentricities of the family who leave the guests to slink ... Read more

    $12.69 USD

  • Present Laughter

    by Noël Coward ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    "An honest, even profound reflection on the price of fame, with some genuine sexual frisson and an undercurrent of pathos." - The Hollywood ReporterAt the centre of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave, hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs - his line of harmless, infatuated debutantes is largely tolerated but playing closer to home is not. Just ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Hay Fever

    by Noël Coward ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    "This 1925 comedy of manners that's funny yet also unorthodox and unsettling... a celebration of abnormality and at the same time a disquieting study of both the pleasures and the pains of not being able to restrain oneself." - Evening StandardWhen four guests, all invited by different members of the Bliss family, arrive for a weekend at their country house near Maidenhead, they're expecting a ... Read more

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  • Private Lives

    by Noël Coward ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    "Noel Coward's glittering gem" - The TimesElyot Chase and Amanda Prynne, recently divorced from one another after a five-year marriage, coincidentally arrive at the same French hotel... where they are both honeymooning with their respective new spouses. Jarred by this encounter, Elyot and Amanda realise that they still very much horrified and fascinated by the other.Frequently performed and ... Read more

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  • Blithe Spirit

    by Noël Coward ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    "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 TelegraphWhen socialite and novelist Charles Condomine attends a séance hosted by eccentric medium Madame Arcati, he's only ... Read more

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  • Design for Living

    by Noël Coward ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    "Its fusion of passion and mischief remains striking and there is something undeniably heady about its celebration of a kind of sexual liberation that looks a lot like flippancy" - Evening StandardFrom 1930s bohemian Paris to the dizzying heights of Manhattan society, a tempestuous love triangle unravels between a vivacious interior designer, Gilda, playwright Leo and artist Otto - three people ... Read more

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  • The Vortex

    by Noël Coward ...
    Series series Modern Classics
    A single-volume edition of one of Coward's masterpieces, published to tie in with major Donmar Warehouse production in December 2002In The Vortex, Coward explores the darker side of the Cocktail Party set. Emotional blackmail, drug abuse and shattered relationships are minutely observed in this disturbing, early piece from a playwright whose sharp eye was more usually turned towards the light.This ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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  • Cold Vengeance

    Series Book 11 - Agent Pendergast Series
    Twelve years ago, Special Agent Pendergast's beloved wife was murdered during an African safari -- and now, he's on a quest for revenge.Devastated by the discovery that his wife, Helen, was murdered, Special Agent Pendergast must have retribution. But revenge is not simple. As he stalks his wife's betrayers--a chase that takes him from the wild moors of Scotland to the bustling streets of New York ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Address Book

    hope lives here

    by Neil Bartlett ...
    Address Book is the new work of fiction by the Costa-shortlisted author of Skin Lane. Neil Bartlett's cycle of stories takes us to seven very different times and situations: from a new millennium civil partnership celebration to erotic obsession in a Victorian tenement, from a council-flat bedroom at the height of the AIDS crisis to a doctor's living-room in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, ... Read more

    $9.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Injury Time

    Collected Mysteries

    Series Book 16 - The Calleshire Chronicles
    Sixteen short puzzlers from the inimitable Catherine Aird, author of the acclaimed C. D. Sloan MysteriesA professional pickpocket and accomplished thief ignores his wife's warnings and embarks on an adventure that will change his life—perhaps for the better. A technological marvel of a sports car kills a pedestrian, but no one was at the wheel. A local lunatic admits to murder, but is he crazy—or ... Read more

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  • Maigret's Memoirs (Inspector Maigret)

    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series Book 35 - Inspector Maigret
    In his own words, Maigret reflects on his legacy—and storytelling itself—in this metatextual meditation on narrative, policing, and truth.Is the real Inspector Maigret the mentally agile, physically ponderous detective of Georges Simenon’s famous novels? Or is this character a distorted facsimile of an actual person? In a startling turn of events, the original Jules Maigret of the Paris Police ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • When in Rome

    by Ngaio Marsh ...
    Series Book 26 - Roderick Alleyn
    A British tour group in Italy finds murder is an obstacle to their sightseeing: "Fastidious writing [and] a fine appreciation of place." — Sunday TimesA group of well-to-do tourists is visiting Italy's magnificent churches, but they've found themselves stumbling into an unholy web of blackmail and drug-smuggling—and, in the depths of a Roman basilica, murder. Fortunately Inspector Roderick Alleyn ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus