Author:Robert Smythe Hichens

Robert Smythe Hichens
(1864–1950)

Robert Smythe Hichens

Works

• The Coast Guard's Secret (1886)
• The Green Carnation (published anonymously, 1894)
• An Imaginative Man (1895)
• Flames (1897)
• The Londoners (1898)
• The Slave (1899)
• The Prophet of Berkeley Square (1901)
• Felix (1902)
• The Garden of Allah (1904), elaborately presented as a play in New York City and filmed thrice
• The Woman with the Fan (1904)
• The Call of the Blood (1906)
• Barbary Sheep (1907)
• A Spirit in Prison (1908)
• Bella Donna (1909), filmed four times
• The Fruitful Vine (1911) (start transcription)
• The Dweller on the Threshold (1911)
• The Way of Ambition (1913)
• In the Wilderness (1917)
• Mrs. Marden (1919)
• Spirit of the Time (1921)
• December Love (1922)
• The Last Time (1924)
• After the Verdict (1924)

Collections

• The Folly of Eustace and Other Stories (1896)
  • The Folly of Eustace — The Return of the Soul — The Collaborators
• Tongues of Conscience (1898, 1900)
  • Sea Chance — "William Foster" — The Cry of the Child — How Love Came to Professor Guildea — The Lady and the Beggar
• Bye-Ways (1897)
• The Black Spaniel and Other Stories. Illustrated by A. Forestier (1905)
  • The Black Spaniel — The Mission of Eustace Greyne — Desert Air — "Fin Tireur" — Halima and the Scorpions — The Desert Drum — The Princess and the Jewel Doctor — The Figure in the Mirage — Safti's Summer Day — Smaïn — The Spinster — Pancrazia's Hair
• Snake-Bite and Other Stories (1919)
  • Snake-Bite — The Lost Faith — The Hindu — The Lighted Candles — The Nomad — The Two Fears

Nonfiction

• The Spell of Egypt (1910)
• Yesterday (1947)

Works from periodicals

• "Desert Air," in Outing (1903 Aug) ss
• "The Mission of Mr. Eustace Greyne," in The Smart Set (1904 Sept) novelette
• "The Letter," in Harper's Bazar (1920 Nov to 1921 Jan) 3-part serial
• "The Last Time," in Harper's Bazar (1923 Jan & Feb) 2-part serial
• "The Sleeping-Car" (1924 Feb, Cosmopolitan) (ss)
• "The Inn" (1924 May, Cosmopolitan) (ss)
• "The Man Who Hated His Wife" (1924 June, Cosmopolitan) (ss)

Works about Hichens

• "Hichens, Robert Smythe," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)