In 1927, Arlen, feeling ill, joined D.H. Lawrence in Florence, where the latter was working on Lady Chatterley’s Lover, in which Arlen would later find himself portrayed as Michaelis. The following year, Arlen married Countess Atalanta Mercati in Cannes; they had a son and a daughter.
Arlen continued to write during the remainder of the 1920s and 1930s, but none of his works met with the same success as The Green Hat. When Arlen found his loyalty to England questioned during World War II, he and his family moved to New York, where during the last ten years of his life he suffered from writer’s block. He died of cancer in 1956.
ABOUT THE COVER
Cover: Because no example of the original dust jacket in a condition suitable for reproduction could be located, the cover of this edition is a recreation by M.S. Corley that replicates the design of the first U.S. edition, published by Doubleday in 1934.
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