Michael Arlen: 11 books

Michael Arlen (November 16, 1895 – June 23, 1956), born Dikran Kouyoumdjian, was an Armenian essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter, who had his greatest successes in the s while living and writing in England. Although Arlen is most famous for his satirical romances...

"It belongs to those short, perfect books that are rarely written in English." - Evening Standard "[T]his extremely odd performance is indicative of great power." - Gerald Gould, The Observer "[A] right intriguing comedy and mystery. As entertainment during...

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The London Venture. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Michael Arlen,...

NOËL ANSON and I had been great friends in our first youthful days, but our lives and ambitions had led us so contrarily that we had not seen each other for more than six years when, on the night two weeks ago, we happened to meet at the Club. We had both, of course, so much to say that, as often...

The book starts with Arlen, having grown tired of London, leaving that city for an extended period in some other British town. As soon as he leaves the metropolis, however, he yearns to return and his yearning prompts him to put pen to paper. His intention is to write an essay on London, but he soon...

A book of 4 short stories: The Romantic Lady – The story of a beautiful Italian woman who choses her new husband by inviting a man home and forbidding him to ever see her again. Fay Richmond – A man finds himself a frequent guest and friend in the house of the beautiful Fay Richmond, engaged to...

From National Book Award–winner Michael J. Arlen and screenwriter Alice Arlen, here is the fascinating, adventurous life of Alicia Patterson, who became, at age thirty-four, one of the youngest and most successful newspaper publishers in America when she founded Newsday. With The Huntress,...

In Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exiles to try to discover what his father had tried to forget: Armenia and what it meant to be an Armenian,...

Back in print, "a wry and moving . . . rare and minute accounting of growing up." (Time) Exiles is the story of two glamorous people**—one, a beautiful aristocrat; the other, a self-made man, one of the most famous authors of the 1920s. In this slender volume, which was nominated...

Thirty Seconds is a look at the advertising industry by Michael J. Arlen.