"The Romantic Lady" by Michael Arlen is a story that starts with Noël Anson catching up with a friend and telling him about a fascinating woman he met. One night at the theater, Noël is completely taken by a beautiful lady in a white dress and boldly sends her a note asking her to have supper with him, sparking a series of flirtatious and engaging interactions. As they talk, her charm and grace become clear while they also carefully touch on deeper feelings, like wanting something more from life and how society can hold people back. The start of the novel shows how attractive the romantic lady is and how quickly these kinds of special meetings can end, leaving a feeling of wanting more and knowing it can’t last.
The Romantic Lady
By Michael Arlen
A man's life is upturned after sending a daring invitation to a captivating woman he glimpses across a crowded theater.
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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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