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The Vortex ▾
contents
  1. Dramatis Personae
  2. Act I
  3. Act II
  4. Act III
English ▾

The Vortex

Noël Coward

free · 16,354 words · 1 h 51 m audiobook, read by volunteers for LibriVox

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To
G. Calthrop
with a good deal of gratitude

Dramatis Personae

  • Preston

  • Helen Saville

  • Pauncefort Quentin

  • Clara Hibbert

  • Florence Lancaster

  • Tom Veryan

  • Nicky Lancaster

  • David Lancaster

  • Bunty Mainwaring

  • Bruce Fairlight

Act I

The scene is the drawing-room of Mrs. Lancaster’s flat in London. The colors and decoration are on the verge of being original. The furniture is simple but distinctly expensive.

Persons shown are Helen Saville and Pauncefort Quentin. Helen Saville and Pauncefort Quentin are shown in by Preston. Helen is a smartly dressed woman of about thirty. “Pawnie” is an elderly maiden gentleman.

restoring your place…

fetching the rest…

More by Noël Coward

  • Hay Fever
    You get a wonderfully sharp weekend of theatrical selfishness as the Bliss family invites guests, then promptly ignores them for their own dramas. The play is knowingly artificial and very funny, though its elegant, brittle chatter may leave you cold if you need sympathetic characters.

genres

  • Romance

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The Vortex by Noël Coward. The text is in the US public domain, from the Standard Ebooks edition. Served from our own copy; read on their site for the full edition with images and typography.

Narrated by TJ Burns, Jenn Broda, Lynette Caulkins, Kelly S. Taylor, WendyKatzHiller, ksb013, James R. Hedrick, GlennProud3, ToddHW, Larry Wilson, and Donald Gilmore for LibriVox, also public domain.

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