Linnet: A Romance

Return to the pages of a vanished Victorian countryside in Grant Allen's Linnet: A Romance, now presented complete and unabridged exactly as first published in 1898. This edition reproduces the full original text and surrounds it with a new introduction and reader's notes that illuminate Allen's world: his scientific training, his fascination with heredity and environment, and his gift for rendering rural England with a naturalist's eye. A novelist equally at home with ideas and landscapes, Allen tells Linnet's story with warmth, quiet wit, and a deep attentiveness to the fields, birds, and villages that shape her fate. Whether you are discovering this overlooked classic for the first time or returning to an old favorite, this volume offers the whole of Allen's romance, carefully typeset for modern readers and enriched with contextual apparatus. Part of The Founding Texts Library.