Robert Smythe Hichens

Robert Smythe Hichens

Robert Smythe Hichens (November 14, 1864July 20, 1950) was an English journalist and novelist.

Biography

Born in Speldhurst in Kent, he was educated at Clifton College, the Royal College of Music, and the London School of Journalism.

He wrote lyrics for music, stories, and collaborated in successful plays. He is best remembered now, perhaps, for his satire on Oscar Wilde, "The Green Carnation" (1894), his novels that were made into films — "The Garden of Allah" (pub. 1904) and "The Paradine Case" (pub. 1933) — and the story "How Love Came to Professor Guildea", which has been frequently anthologized. His novel "Felix" (1902) is an early fictional treatment of hypodermic morphine addiction.

Hichens' classic novel "The Green Carnation" has been republished as a hardcover volume in 2006.

Bibliography

Novels

* "The Green Carnation" (published anonymously, 1894; republished, 2006)
* "An Imaginative Man" (1895)
* "Flames" (1897)
* "The Slave" (1899)
* "The Prophet of Berkeley Square" (1901)
* "Felix" (1902)
* "Black Spaniel, and Other Stories" (1905)
* "The Garden of Allah" (1904), elaborately presented as a play in New York City
* "Call of the Blood" (1905)
* "Bella Donna" (1909), in which Alla Nazimova starred in 1913
* "The Spell of Egypt" (1911)
* "The Dweller on the Threshold" (1911)
* "The Way of Ambition" (1913)
* "In the Wilderness" (1917)
* "SnakeBite" (1919)
* "Mrs. Marden" (1919)
* "Spirit of the Time" (1921)
* "December Love" (1922)
* "The Last Time" (1924)
* "After The Verdict" (1924)
* "The First Lady Brendon" (1927)
* "Mortimer Brice" (1932)
* "The Paradine Case" (1933)
* "The Power To Kill" (1934)
* "The Pyramid" (1936)
* "The Sixth Of October" (1936)
* "Daniel Airlie" (1937)
* "Secret Information" (1938)
* "The Journey Up" (1938)
* "That Which Is Hidden" (1939)
* "The Million" (1940)
* "A New Way Of Life" (1941)
* "Veils" (1943)
* "Harps in the Wind" (1945)

Collections

*The Folly of Eustace: And Other Stories (1896)
*Bye-Ways (1897)
*Tongues of Conscience (1900)
*The Black Spaniel: And Other Stories (1905)
*Snake-Bite: And Other Stories (1919)
*The Return of the Soul and Other Stories (2001; ed. S. T. Joshi)

Anthologies containing stories by Robert S. Hichens

*Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series (1928)
*Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957)
*The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1966)
*Medley Macabre (1966)
*Black Water (1984)
*I Shudder at Your Touch (1992)
*4 Classic Ghostly Tales (1993)

hort Stories

*How Love Came to Professor Guildea (1900)
*Demetriadi's Dream

References

*"Robert S. Hichens". "Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 153: Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists". First Series. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.

ources

* [http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/cgi-bin/auth.pl?H004180 "Author and Book Info.com"]

External links

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* [http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/hichens.html Brief biography]
* [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/h/robert-s-hichens/ Brief bibliography]


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