"These Charming People" by Michael Arlen is a story that vividly captures the intertwined lives of Shelmerdene, Lord Tarlyon, Mr. Michael Wagstaffe, Mr. Ralph Wyndham Trevor, and their social circle. It shows their adventures, mistakes, courtships, and everyday experiences during the early 1900s. The story begins when Shelmerdene comes back to England from Persia and is welcomed at a big party at Malmanor Park. Raymond Paris, a writer who is trying to make it, is quickly drawn to Shelmerdene's beauty. Shelmerdene shares a sad story about a love from her past that didn't satisfy her, which shows her inner conflicts and dreams. The novel explores themes of love, desire, and the search for meaningful connections in a world shaped by social rules, promising a journey full of both excitement and missteps.
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
By Michael Arlen
In a world of high society, a captivating woman navigates love and life alongside her charismatic companions, revealing a web of intertwined destinies.
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About the AuthorMichael 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'.
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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