{"product_id":"2940012521064","title":"The Call of the Blood by Hichens, Robert Smythe, 1864-1950","description":"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\".[1]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHichens was born in Speldhurst in Kent, the eldest son of a clergyman.[1] He was educated at Clifton College, the Royal College of Music and early on had a desire to be a musician.[1] Later in life he would be a music critic on the World, taking the place of George Bernard Shaw.[1] He also studied at the London School of Journalism. Hichens was a great traveler, Egypt was one of his favorite destinations, he first went there in the early 1890s for his health.[1] For most of his later life he lived outside England, in Switzerland and the Riviera.[1] He never married.[1]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHichens first novel, The Coastguard's Secret (1886), was written when he was only seventeen. He first became well known among the reading public with The Green Carnation (1894), a satire of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas; since the work made clear Wilde was homosexual it was withdrawn from publication in 1895,[1] but not before helping set the stage for Wilde's public disgrace and downfall.[1]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHichens first big success was An Imaginative Man (1895); set in the city of Cairo, Egypt a place which fascinated Hichens, it is a study of insanity, in which the hero has a number of sexual adventures and then smashes his head against the Great Sphinx.[1] Other early fiction includes The Folly of Eustace (1896), a collection of stories including some supernatural;[1] Flames (1897), a story resembling Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde;[1] The Londoners (1898), a satire about decadent London;[1] The Slave (1899), a fantasy about an amazing emerald;[1] Tounges of Conscious (1900), a collection of five horror stories including \"How Love Came to Professor Guildea\", about a supernatural visitation, thought by some to be his best fiction, it is frequently anthologized;[1] Felix (1902), is an early fictional treatment of hypodermic morphine addiction; The Garden of Allah (1904) sold well internationally,[1] and was made into film three times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHichens published his memoirs in 1947, Yesterday.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003esummary by wikipedia.org","brand":"Nook Ebook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081510895856,"sku":"2940012521064","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012521064_p0.jpg?v=1763569784","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012521064","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}