Grant Allen
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Publisher
Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
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 Gazette in 1892. He claimed to have been "as dead as he ever can be or will be" and that he had no "after death" experiences. This suited his atheistic position, of course. In fact he was not "dead" at...
Author
Publisher
Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
J. Arbuthnot Wilson (pseudonym of the real author, Grant Allen) tells this short story of his strange night spent inside "the great unopened Pyramid of Abu Yilla" in Egypt. On New Year's Eve, on the night before his 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 open. What he experienced deep...
Author
Publisher
Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This was the top-prize-winning novel from 20,000 entries in one of the richest literary awards ever offered in Britain. Its convoluted and colorful plot turns on questions of heredity and atavism: the ancestry of the Waring twin brothers and of Elma Clifford. Elma comes on her mother's side from a line of gypsy snake dancers, and she displays a periodic urge to dance wildly with a feather boa in her bedroom. A murderous judge, multiple mistaken
...Author
Publisher
Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Wealthy, confident and handsome, Sir Charles Van Drift spends his time jetting to exotic locales with his wife and in-laws. But on one fateful trip to the Riviera, Van Drift meets his match in Colonel Clay. Posing alternately as a seer, a curate, and a German professor, the master of disguise swindles Van Drift through three continents and poses a serious risk to his South African diamond fortune. Colonel Clay, the notorious con artist and thief,...
Author
Publisher
Chatto and Windus
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (1848 – 1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist, as well as a pioneer in science fiction writing. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories characterized by occult themes, mystery, and Victorian melodrama.
Author
Publisher
Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Two bicyclists, one a Londoner, the other an American geologist named Ward, out for a pleasant bicycle trip in the idyllic Thames valley, meet at a small village inn on the west bank of the Thames. Their parlor chat turns to the subjects of mountains and volcanic eruptions, and the difference between small vent-hole eruptions and large fissure eruptions. The Londoner speaks: "Let us be thankful," I said, carelessly, "that such things don't happen...
Author
Publisher
Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Wealthy, confident and handsome, Sir Charles Van Drift spends his time jetting to exotic locales with his wife and in-laws. But on one fateful trip to the Riviera, Van Drift meets his match in Colonel Clay. Posing alternately as a seer, a curate, and a German professor, the master of disguise swindles Van Drift through three continents and poses a serious risk to his South African diamond fortune. Colonel Clay, the notorious con artist and thief,...
Author
Publisher
Roberts Bros.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Woman Who Did is a novel by Grant Allen about a young, self-assured middle-class woman who defies convention as a matter of principle and who is fully prepared to suffer the consequences of her actions. It was first published in London by John Lane in a series intended to promote the ideal of the "New Woman". - Wikipedia\
Author
Publisher
Chatto and Windus
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (1848 – 1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist, as well as a pioneer in science fiction writing. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories is a collection of thirteen short stories characterized by occult themes, mystery, and Victorian melodrama.
Author
Publisher
Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Two bicyclists, one a Londoner, the other an American geologist named Ward, out for a pleasant bicycle trip in the idyllic Thames valley, meet at a small village inn on the west bank of the Thames. Their parlor chat turns to the subjects of mountains and volcanic eruptions, and the difference between small vent-hole eruptions and large fissure eruptions. The Londoner speaks: "Let us be thankful," I said, carelessly, "that such things don't happen...
Author
Publisher
Roberts Bros.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Woman Who Did is a novel by Grant Allen about a young, self-assured middle-class woman who defies convention as a matter of principle and who is fully prepared to suffer the consequences of her actions. It was first published in London by John Lane in a series intended to promote the ideal of the "New Woman". - Wikipedia\