Michael Arlen (born Dikran Sarkis Kouyoumdjian;, Armenian: Տիգրան Գոյումճեան, 16 November 1895 – 23 June 1956) 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'. (From Wikipedia) More about Michael Arlen:
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| | Books by Michael Arlen: Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956, contrib.: The Best British Short Stories of 1923, and Yearbook of the British Short Story (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1923), ed. by Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, also contrib. by Stacy Aumonier, Clifford Bax, Boyd D. F., Gerald Bullett, Thomas Burke, A. E. Coppard, Norman Davey, W. L. George, Richard Hughes, A. S. M. Hutchinson, F. Tennyson Jesse, Sheila Kaye-Smith, D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, W. Somerset Maugham, Ethel Colburn Mayne, C. E. Montague, Elinor Mordaunt, Liam O'Flaherty, Edwin Pugh, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Lance Sieveking, Osbert Sitwell, Hugh Walpole, and Mary Webb (page images at HathiTrust) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: Ghost Stories (this collection c1932) (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: The Green Hat (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1924) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: The London Venture (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1920), illust. by Michel Sevier (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: The Romantic Lady (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1921) (Gutenberg text)
Additional books by Michael Arlen in the extended shelves: Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: Babes in the wood, a relaxation intended for those who are always travelling but never reaching a destination (Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1929) (page images at HathiTrust) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: The green hat (George H. Doran company, 1924) (page images at HathiTrust) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: The green hat; a romance for a few people (W. Collins Sons & Co., ltd., 1924) (page images at HathiTrust) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: Lily Christine : a romance (Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc., 1928) (page images at HathiTrust) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: The London venture (G. H. Doran, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: The London venture (Heinemann, 1920) (page images at HathiTrust) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: The London venture (W. Heinemann, 1919) (page images at HathiTrust) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: The London venture. (W. Heinemann, 1924) (page images at HathiTrust) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: May Fair : 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 (W. Collins sons & co., ltd., 1925) (page images at HathiTrust) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: May Fair, 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. (Doran, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: May Fair : 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 (Gutenberg ebook) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: May Fair : The ace of cads and other stories. (Grosset & Dunlap, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: "Piracy"; a romantic chronicle of these days (George H. Doran Company, 1923) (page images at HathiTrust) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: "Piracy" : A romantic chronicle of these days (Gutenberg ebook) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: The romantic lady (W. Collins sons & co., 1921) (page images at HathiTrust) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: The romantic lady (Doran, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: The romantic lady (Dodd, Mead and company, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: These charming people. Being a tapestry of the fortunes, follies, adventures, galanteries 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: (W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1923) (page images at HathiTrust) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: These charming people; 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: (George H. Doran Company [c1924], 1924) (page images at HathiTrust) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: These charming people : 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 (Gutenberg ebook) Arlen, Michael, 1895-1956: Young men in love (George H. Doran Company, 1927) (page images at HathiTrust)
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