Michael Frayn





Michael Frayn

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September 08, 1933 in London, The United Kingdom

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Michael Frayn is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy. His novels, such as Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong and Spies, have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. His works often raise philosophical questions in a humorous context. Frayn's wife is Claire Tomalin, the biographer and literary journalist.



Average rating: 3.88 · 10089 ratings · 567 reviews · 64 distinct works
Noises Off
4.2 of 5 stars 420 avg rating — 2508 ratings — published 1982
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Copenhagen
3.95 of 5 stars 395 avg rating — 1057 ratings — published 1998 — 15 editions
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Spies
3.44 of 5 stars 344 avg rating — 876 ratings — published 2002 — 25 editions
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Headlong
3.53 of 5 stars 353 avg rating — 867 ratings — published 1999 — 24 editions
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A Landing on the Sun
3.65 of 5 stars 365 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions
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Towards The End Of The Morning
3.74 of 5 stars 374 avg rating — 97 ratings10 editions
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The Trick of It: A Novel
3.56 of 5 stars 356 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions
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Democracy: A Play
3.68 of 5 stars 368 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions
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3.56 of 5 stars 356 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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The Human Touch: Our Part i...
3.53 of 5 stars 353 avg rating — 49 ratings5 editions
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“Bohr: Heisenberg, I have to say - if people are to be measured strictly in terms of observable quantities...

Heisenberg: Then we should need a strange new quantum ethics.”
Michael Frayn, Copenhagen

“Why did *I* lock the door? Why did YOU lock the door? Someone locked the door...”
Michael Frayn, Noises Off

“We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets, never to be reconciled, to our fellow-country men, to our neighbors, to our friends, to our family to our children. We have to go through not two slits at the same time but twenty-two. All we can do is to look afterwards, and see what happened.”
Michael Frayn, Copenhagen

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