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You Only Live Once [Illustrated]
PERIL PRESS
The Strand, Apr 1939
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Dec 1951
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE
by Michael Arlen
6400 Words
How many writers have the extraordinary talent, precocious or otherwise, to have their first book published while they are still in their teens? Not many surely, but Michael Arlen is one. He was only eighteen when his first novel saw the light of print. He was only twenty-four when THESE CHARMING PEOPLE, that highly sophisticated book of short stories, brought him a modest success. And he was still under thirty when THE GREEN HAT made him an international celebrity. It is said that THE GREEN HAT earned Michael Arlen half a million dollars in book royalties alone, and the motion picture (starring Greta Garbo) and the play (starring Katharine, Cornell) must have added substantially to the book’s income. Today, the critics speak of THE GREEN HAT as “superficial” and “dated” changing their minds, and no matter what harsh words have been flung in Mr. Arlen’s direction in the past, no ever had the courage to deny that “Mike” has wit and imagination, that “he knows how to tell a story” . . .
This edition includes the masthead and cover to the issue of Ellery Queen this was reprinted in, as well as a GALLERY of 10 magazine covers from issues that featured stories by Michael Arlen.
The writer Michael Arlen was cited by Ian Fleming as an influence and mentioned him by name in his 1963 short story '007 in New York'. Fleming's 1964 novel was called 'You Only Live Twice'.
The Strand, Apr 1939
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Dec 1951
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE
by Michael Arlen
6400 Words
How many writers have the extraordinary talent, precocious or otherwise, to have their first book published while they are still in their teens? Not many surely, but Michael Arlen is one. He was only eighteen when his first novel saw the light of print. He was only twenty-four when THESE CHARMING PEOPLE, that highly sophisticated book of short stories, brought him a modest success. And he was still under thirty when THE GREEN HAT made him an international celebrity. It is said that THE GREEN HAT earned Michael Arlen half a million dollars in book royalties alone, and the motion picture (starring Greta Garbo) and the play (starring Katharine, Cornell) must have added substantially to the book’s income. Today, the critics speak of THE GREEN HAT as “superficial” and “dated” changing their minds, and no matter what harsh words have been flung in Mr. Arlen’s direction in the past, no ever had the courage to deny that “Mike” has wit and imagination, that “he knows how to tell a story” . . .
This edition includes the masthead and cover to the issue of Ellery Queen this was reprinted in, as well as a GALLERY of 10 magazine covers from issues that featured stories by Michael Arlen.
The writer Michael Arlen was cited by Ian Fleming as an influence and mentioned him by name in his 1963 short story '007 in New York'. Fleming's 1964 novel was called 'You Only Live Twice'.
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First published March 29, 2014
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Michael Arlen
69 books25 followersOriginal 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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