Dec 21, 2009

Private Lives | What Do I Read Next?

If you enjoy one play by Coward, the next logical step is to investigate his other works Design for Living (1933), about a "progressive" romantic triangle, and Blithe Spirit (1941), about a man who is haunted by the meddling ghost of his first wife, share much of the style and sensibility of Private Lives.

Frederick Lewis Allen's Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (1931) and Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America (1940) are lively, readable histories of the twenties and thirties, respectively, written by a contemporary historian. They...