Complete Mystery Detective of Grant Allen
Falling in Love, An African Millionaire, Early Britain, Anglo-Saxon Britain, Miss Cayley's Adventures, Strange Stories, Beckoning Hand, Woman Who Did, Biographies of Working Men, Babylon, British Barbarians, Side Lights, Great Taboo, White Man's Foot, Recalled to Life, Charles Darwin, Philistia, What's Bred In The Bone, Blood Royal, Hilda Wade, Post-Prandial Philosophy, Linnet, Moorland Idylls, Science in Arcady, Michael's Crag, Evolutionist at Large
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Description de l’éditeur
Grant Allen was a a science writer and novelist, and a successful upholder of the theory of evolution.
His scandalous book titled The Woman Who Did, promulgating certain startling views on marriage and kindred questions, became a bestseller. The book told the story of an independent woman who has a child out of wedlock. He was also a pioneer in science fiction, with the 1895 novel The British Barbarians. This book, published about the same time as H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, which includes a mention of Allen, also described time travel.
Falling in Love
An African Millionaire
Early Britain, Anglo-Saxon Britain
What's Bred In The Bone
Biographies of Working Men
Recalled to Life
Philistia
Michael's Crag
Miss Cayley's Adventures
Strange Stories
The Woman Who Did
The Great Ruby Robbery: A Detective Story
The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories
The Adventure of the Cantankerous Old Lady
The British Barbarians
Charles Darwin
Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose
Post-Prandial Philosophy
Science in Arcady
Side Lights
The White Man's Foot
The Great Taboo
The Thames Valley Catastrophe
This Mortal Coil
Linnet
Babylon, Complete I, II, III
Moorland Idylls
Wednesday the Tenth, A Tale of the South Pacific
The Evolutionist at Large
Blood Royal
Early Britain, Anglo-Saxon Britain (1881)-
This little book is an attempt to give a brief sketch of Britain under the early English conquerors, rather from the social than from the political point of view. For that purpose not much has been said about the doings of kings and statesmen; but attention has been mainly directed towards the less obvious evidence afforded us by existing monuments as to the life and mode of thought of the people themselves.
Recalled to Life (1891)-
My babyhood, my childhood, my girlhood, my school-days were all utterly blotted out by that one strange shock of horror. My past life became exactly as though it had never been. I forgot my own name. I forgot my mother-tongue. I forgot everything I had ever done or known or thought about.
Miss Cayley's Adventures (1899)-
The story of an intelligent, independent young British woman who sets out around the world in search of adventure. She finds plenty as she trips-up con-men, outsmarts Arabs, kills a tiger and, of course, saves the man she loves. Allen is a great writer so it's not nearly as trite as it may sound. It has humor and a couple of stinging barbs at the condescending attitude that was no doubt prevalent in those heady days of Victoria's global empire.
The British Barbarians (1895)-
Bertram Ingledew turns up in a Surrey village and promptly proceeds to reveal the taboos and absurdities of late 19th century life; as if the people he finds are members of a savage tribe, Bertram applies the techniques of an anthropologist. The class system, property ownership, marriage, and the status of women all come under scrutiny.
Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose (1899)- This early detective novel, featuring a female sleuth, was the last work by Mr. Grant Allen, with a final chapter edited by his friend and neighbour, Dr. Conan Doyle.
The White Man's Foot (1888)-
The old priest of Mauna Loa, the great Hawaiian volcano, is to all outward appearance a good, civilized Christian man, who has discarded his old beliefs and has heartily accepted the more excellent way offered him. All the while he keeps the old priest's mask in his closet and the old faith in his heart. His contact with the scientific explorers who come to pry into the secrets of his great goddess works out into a decidedly interesting tale, a little too full, perhaps, of hairbreadth escapes in situations from which escape seems impossible, and is found only at the very last possible moment, when all hope has been given up, but a well-sustained narrative throughout.