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Michael Arlen

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born

December 13, 1901 in Rousse, Bulgaria

died

June 23, 1956

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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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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Books by Michael Arlen

Average rating: 4.13 · 286 ratings · 39 reviews · 10 distinct works

	The Green Hat 3.29 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1924 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Hell! Said the Duchess : A Bedtime Story 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1934 — 2 editions	My rating:
	These Charming People 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1937 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Young men in Love 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1927	My rating:
	The London Venture 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1968 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Romantic Lady (1921) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Georgian Stories, 1925 by Michael Arlen, Martin Armstrong, E. M. Forster 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ghost Stories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by Herbert A. Wise (Editor), John Collier (Contributor), Charles Collins (Contributor) 4.35 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1944 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Haunted Omnibus by Alexander Laing (Editor, Foreword), W.F. Harvey (Contributor), F. Marion Crawford (Contributor) 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1937 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

5 votes, 26.3%

The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

4 votes, 21.1%

Loving; Living; Party Going by Henry Green

3 votes, 15.8%

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

3 votes, 15.8%

The Green Hat by Michael Arlen

2 votes, 10.5%

Meet Mr. Mulliner by P.G. Wodehouse

2 votes, 10.5%

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