Grant Allen

• Feb-1885
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In the midst of an undulating sunlit plain, fresh with flowers in spring, burnt and yellow in summer and autumn, a great sordid shrivelled city blinks and festers visibly among the rags and tatters in the eye of day. Within its huge imperial walls th...

• Nov-1892
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Chiddingwick High Street is one of the quaintest and most picturesque bits of old town architecture to be found in England. Narrow at either end, it broadens suddenly near the middle, by a sweeping curve outward, just opposite the W hite Horse, where...

• Jan-2006
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Using a language that befits the theme of the novel, Allen has produced a brilliant work. With an aura of deep mystery, he has created a misty environment that engulfs the imagination of the reader. With grave twists and turns, the work startles at e...

• Jan-2006
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Grant Allen was a late 19th century Canadian author best known for writing about both science and novels. This is one of his horror tales. ...

• May-2008
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A Victorian-era mystery featuring a uniquely resourceful and daring heroine who must save her true love from prison . . .When her stepfather dies, Lois Cayley is left penniless and alone. But she is strong in mind and body, and refuses...

• Mar-2010
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According to Wikipedia: Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 - October 25, 1899) was a science writer, author and novelist, and a successful upholder of the theory of evolution... In his career, Allen wrote two novels under female pseud...

• May-2010
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Canadian-born Grant Allen was a highly prolific and multi-talented writer who achieved literary acclaim in a number of genres, spanning nonfiction and fiction alike. The Great Taboo is a high seas adventure that will appeal to fans of H. Rider Hagga...

• Dec-2010
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An excellent addition to Penguin's crime classics: the tantalizing tale of Colonel Clay, literature's first gentleman rogue. Wealthy, confident and handsome, Sir Charles Van Drift spends his time jetting to exotic locales with his wife and in-law...

• Mar-2011
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Title: At Market Value. A novel.

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million i...

• Apr-2011
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Title: In All Shades. A novel.

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million ite...

• Apr-2011
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Title: Mr. Grant Allen's New Story "Michael's Crag." With ... marginal illustrations in silhouette, etc.

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is ...

• Jan-2012
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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 at...

• Feb-2012
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

• May-2012
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

• May-2013
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My acknowledgments are due to Dr. Smiles's Lives of the Engineers, Life of the Stephensons, and Life of a Scotch Naturalist; to Lady Eastlake's Life of Gibson; to Mr. Holden's Life of Sir William Herschel; to M. Seusier's J. F. Millet, Sa Vie et Ses ...

• Jul-2013
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Charles Darwin was a great man, and he accomplished a great work. The Newton of biology, he found the science of life a chaotic maze; he left it an orderly system, with a definite plan and a recognisable meaning. Great men are not accidents; great wo...

• Jul-2013
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Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen was born on February 24th, 1848 at Alwington, near Kingston, Canada West (now part of Ontario). Home schooled until 13 when his family moved to England, Grant was to become a highly regarded science writer who branched...

• Sep-2013
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On the eighteenth day out from Sydney, we were cruising under the lee of Erromanga -- of course you know Erromanga, an isolated island between the New Hebrides and the Loyalty group -- when suddenly our dusky Polynesian boy, Nassaline, who was at the...

• Mar-2014
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This is a collection of stories by Grant Allen, published in various years. The title story is personal. Allen nearly drowned when he fell through the ice while skating as a boy in Canada, and wrote about the experience anonymously for the Pall Mall ...

• Mar-2015
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• Apr-2015
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• Nov-2015
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• Oct-2016
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This is a collection of stories by Grant Allen, published in various years. The title story is personal. Allen nearly drowned when he fell through the ice while skating as a boy in Canada, and wrote about the experience anonymously for the Pall Mall ...

• Oct-2019
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On New Year's Eve, on the night before eliot's group was to take a guided tour and climb the still sealed pyramid, he set out on his own to walk around the pyramid to relieve his boredom. He happened to find the secret entrance stone, which he pushed...

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Though his first focus as a writer was scientific nonfiction, Grant Allen soon expanded into other genres and was met with resounding success. This collection of suspense, mystery, and horror tales offers a well-rounded introduction to Allen's remark...

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This amusing science-fiction-tinged satire centers on an anthropologist sent from the future to make a study of British society in the late nineteenth century. Bertram Ingledew comprehensively documents and describes the savage rituals and beliefs he...

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Some people complain that science is dry. That is, of course, a matter of taste. For my own part, I like my science and my champagne as dry as I can get them. But the public thinks otherwise. So I have ventured to sweeten accompanying samples as far ...

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Professor Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (1848-1899) (who also wrote under the pseudonyms Cecil Power, Olive Pratt Rayner, Martin Leach Warborough and J. Arbuthnot Wilson) was a science writer, author and novelist; an able upholder of the theory of ...

• / General Fiction
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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Mediterranean - Its Storied Cities and Venerable Ruins. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.

This is ...

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Unemployed and down on his luck, Eustace Le Neve's fortunes take a sharp turn for the better when he meets a charming young lady named Cleer Trevannick. Immediately smitten, he wants to marry Cleer, but he has no prospects -- and Cleer's eccentric fa...

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Philistia was Grant Allen's first novel, and according to the author's memoirs, he poured his heart and soul into its creation and believed it be his finest work. This classic coming-of-age story follows three brothers as they leave home and stake th...

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These Essays appeared originally in The Westminster Gazette, and have only been so far modified here as is necessary for purposes of volume publication. They aim at being suggestive rather than exhaustive: I shall be satisfied if I have provoked thou...

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Una Callingham suffered a terrible trauma that wiped out her entire past and irrevocably altered the course of her future. When she begins to emerge from the fog of her injury, Una starts to piece together the tragedy that changed her life. She sets ...

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These essays deal for the most part with Science in Arcady. 'Tis my native country: for I am not of those who 'praise the busy town.' On the contrary, in the words of the great poet who has just departed to join Milton and Shelley in a place of high ...

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Canadian-born author Grant Allen held progressive views about women and their role in society. In order to bring more awareness to the issue, he penned numerous novels featuring strong female protagonists. Hilda Wade: A Woman With Tenacity of Purpose...

• / Horror
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A novella about a massive volcanic event in the Thames valley: the narrator escapes on his bicycle, pedalling to London with an all-consuming wall of fire just minutes behind him. The juxtaposition of the peaceful countryside he passes through with t...

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This enormously popular bestseller highlights all of Canadian-born author Grant Allen's trademark literary gifts. Featuring an indefatigable female detective, What's Bred In the Bone is a fast-paced read that's packed with plot twists that will keep...