Blithe Spirit (Methuen Modern Plays)

As Coward wrote: "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, the play remained the longest-running comedy in the history of the British theatre for three decades thereafter. Dealing with relationships on both sides of the grave, it is an enduring classic.

"Nol Coward is the Congreve of our time."-Arnold Bennett