Portrait of Michael Arlen

Michael Arlen

Michael Arlen was an essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter. He had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England, publishing the best-selling novel The Green Hat in 1924. Arlen is most famous for his satirical romances set in English smart society, but he also wrote gothic horror and psychological thrillers, for instance "The Gentleman from America", which was filmed in 1948 as The Fatal Night, and again in 1956 as a television episode for Alfred Hitchcock's TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Near the end of his life, Arlen mainly occupied himself with political writing. Arlen's vivid but colloquial style "with unusual inversions and inflections with a heightened exotic pitch" came to be known as 'Arlenesque'.

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"Piracy" : $b A romantic chronicle of these days

"Piracy: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days" by Michael Arlen is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story centers around Ivor Pelham Marla...

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These charming people : $b being a tapestry of the fortunes, follies, adventures, gallantries and general activities of Shelmerdene (that lovely lady), Lord Tarlyon, Mr. Michael Wagstaffe, Mr. Ralph Wyndham Trevor and some others of their friends of the lighter sort

"These Charming People" by Michael Arlen is a novel written in the early 20th century. The book presents a vivid tapestry of the lives, loves, and amb...

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The green hat

"The Green Hat" by Michael Arlen is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around the character of Iris Storm, a captivating wo...

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The Romantic Lady

"The Romantic Lady" by Michael Arlen is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story revolves around Noël Anson, a man whose chance encounter ...

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May Fair : $b being an entertainment purporting to reveal to gentlefolk the real state of affairs existing in the very heart of London during the fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fifth: together with suitable reflections on the last follies, misadventures and galanteries of these charming people

"May Fair" by Michael Arlen is a fictional work written in the early 20th century. The story seems to explore the lives and social dynamics of London ...

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The London Venture

"The London Venture" by Michael Arlen is a novel written in the early 20th century. The narrative explores themes of love, identity, and the complexit...

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