The Vortex: A Play in Three Acts by Noël Coward
"The Vortex: A Play in Three Acts" by Noël Coward is a play written in 1924. Set in post-World War I British high society, it explores the sexual vanity of an aging socialite and her complicated relationship with her adult son. The play depicts drug abuse and includes what critics view as coded references to homosexuality, then illegal in Britain. Its scandalous content made it Coward's first major commercial success, though it
barely survived official censorship before its November 1924 premiere in London. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Read or download for free
| How to read | Url | Size | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read now! | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67988.html.images | 236 kB | |||
| EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67988.epub3.images | 270 kB | |||
| EPUB (older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67988.epub.images | 274 kB | |||
| EPUB (no images, older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67988.epub.noimages | 130 kB | |||
| Kindle | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67988.kf8.images | 365 kB | |||
| older Kindles | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67988.kindle.images | 340 kB | |||
| Plain Text UTF-8 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67988.txt.utf-8 | 124 kB | |||
| Download HTML (zip) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67988/pg67988-h.zip | 304 kB | |||
| There may be more files related to this item. | |||||
Similar Books
About this eBook
| Author | Coward, Noël, 1899-1973 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Vortex: A Play in Three Acts |
| Original Publication | United States: Harper & Brothers,1924. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vortex |
| Credits | Tim Lindell, hekula03 and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Man-woman relationships -- Drama |
| Subject | Mothers and sons -- Drama |
| Subject | England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama |
| Subject | Drug addicts -- Drama |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 67988 |
| Release Date | May 4, 2022 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 526 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! | |