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Michael Arlen


Born
in Rousse, Bulgaria
December 13, 1901

Died
June 23, 1956

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Horror


Original name Dikran Kouyoumdjian. Armenian essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter, who had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England. Although Arlen is most famous for his satirical romances set in English smart society, he also wrote gothic horror and psychological thrillers, for instance "The Gentleman from America", which was filmed 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 came to be known as 'Arlenesque'.

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Average rating: 4.0 · 1,911 ratings · 229 reviews · 63 distinct works • Similar authors
The Green Hat
3.26 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 1924 — 71 editions
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Hell! Said the Duchess: A B...
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These Charming People
3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1923 — 29 editions
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The Gay Falcon
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London Venture
3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1920 — 63 editions
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The Romantic Lady
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1921 — 42 editions
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Ghost Stories
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May Fair
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Young Men in Love
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“To me, a world which thinks of itself in terms of puny, squalid, bickering little nations and not as one glorious field for the crusade of mankind is a world in which to succeed is the highest indignity that ca befall a good man, it is a world in which geed men are shut up like gods in a lavatory.”
― Michael Arlen, The Green Hat
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