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Robert Smythe Hichens (14 November 1864 – 20 July 1950) was an English journalist, novelist, music lyricist, short story writer, music critic and collaborated on successful plays. He is best remembered as a satirist of the " Naughty Nineties ".
Robert Smythe Hichens has 189 books on Goodreads with 17158 ratings. Robert Smythe Hichens’s most popular book is The Green Carnation.
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Robert Smythe Hichens was a satirist and critic, having studied at Clifton College, the Royal College of Music, and the London School of Journalism. He was a friend of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas. Also wrote as Robert S. Hichens and Robert Hichens.
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(1864-1950) UK journalist and author, active from about 1886 for more than half a century but now almost forgotten except for The Green Carnation (1894) – which dangerously exploits Oscar Wilde and 1890s Decadence in general – and The Garden of Allah (1904); though neither tale is literally fantastic, they are both written in a style so ...
An Imaginative Man is an 1895 novel by the British writer Robert Hichens. A tale about a young man on holiday in Cairo who after experiencing dissatisfaction with his new wife becomes increasingly obsessed with Great Sphinx, it was a commercial hit and Hichens wrote a number of further books in the orientalist style. References
English journalist, novelist and short story writer. Robert Smythe Hichens. Contents. 1 Works. 1.1 Collections. 1.2 Nonfiction. 1.3 Works from periodicals. 2 Works about Hichens. Works edit. The Coast Guard's Secret (1886) The Green Carnation (published anonymously, 1894) An Imaginative Man (1895) Flames (1897) The Londoners (1898) The Slave (1899)
