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  • Miss Cayley's Adventures

    by Grant Allan ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    When her stepfather dies, Miss Lois Cayley finds herself alone in the world with only twopence in her pocket. Undaunted, the intelligent, attractive, and infinitely resourceful young woman decides to set off in search of adventure. Her travels take her from London to Germany, Italy, Egypt, and India, as she faces various challenges and meets an assortment of eccentric characters. But when her true ... Read more

    $3.12 CAD

  • Anglo-Saxon Britain

    by Grant Allan ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    Written in the late 19th century, this was part of a series of short histories on Early Britain for popular readers of the time. It suffers, of course, from the prejudices of its times, but really does give a good introduction to the Anglo-Saxons and their history in Britain. ... Read more

    $3.12 CAD

  • The Woman Who Did

    by Grant Allan ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    "The Woman Who Did" (1895) 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". It was adapted into a British silent film in 1915, "The Woman Who Did", ... Read more

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  • Hilda Wade: A Woman With Tenacity of Purpose

    by Grant Allan ...
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    Beginning in 1894 Allen produced 30 novels including the scandalous novel The Woman Who Did. Hilda Wade: A Woman With Tenacity Of Purpose is one of the first detective stories with a strong female protagonist. The story takes place in a hospital where Hilda works as a nurse for a popular doctor. (Goodreads) ... Read more

    $3.12 CAD

  • Babylon

    by Grant Allan ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    "Another year had passed, and Colin, now of full age, had tired of working for Cicolari. It was all very well, this moulding clay and carving replicas of afflicted widows; it was all very well, this modelling busts and statuettes and little classical compositions; it was all very well, this picking up stray hints in a half-amateur fashion from the grand torsos of the British Museum and a few ... Read more

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  • The British Barbarians

    by Grant Allan ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    Grant Allen became a pioneer in science fiction, with the novel "The British Barbarians" (1895). This book, published about the same time as H. G. Wells's The Time Machine (which appeared January–May 1895, and which includes a mention of Allen, also described time travel. ... Read more

    $3.12 CAD

  • An African Millionaire

    by Grant Allan ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    Grant Allen's "An African Millionaire", first published in 1897, is a classic in rogue fiction: a South African millionaire is hounded by a mischievous and larcenous conman, Colonel Clay. The tables may turn, but who is the greater rogue: the conman or the victim? ... Read more

    $3.12 CAD

  • The White Man's Foot

    by Grant Allan ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    The old priest of Mauna Loa, the great Hawaiian volcano, is to all outward appearance a good, civilised 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 ... Read more

    $3.12 CAD

  • Philistia

    by Grant Allan ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    It was Sunday evening, and on Sundays Max Schurz, the chief of the London Socialists, always held his weekly receptions. That night his cosmopolitan refugee friends were all at liberty; his French disciples could pour in from the little lanes and courts in Soho, where, since the Commune, they had plied their peaceful trades as engravers, picture-framers, artists'-colour men, models, pointers, and ... Read more

    $3.12 CAD

  • Linnet: A Romance

    by Grant Allan ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    "Linnet: A Romance" by Grant Allen is a captivating anthology that transports readers to the enchanting Tyrol, blending humor, adventure, and cultural exploration. In "CHAPTER I," the journey begins with Florian Wood, a charming young man exploring the idyllic yet rugged Zillerthal Valley. Accompanied by his skeptical friend Will Deverill, Florian sets out to find the true essence of the Tyrol. ... Read more

    $3.12 CAD

  • Wednesday the Tenth; A Tale of the South Pacific

    by Grant Allan ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    "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 masthead on the lookout, gave a surprised cry of "Boat ahoy!" and pointed with his skinny black finger to a dark dot away southward on the horizon, in the ... Read more

    $3.12 CAD

  • Wolverden Tower

    by Grant Allan ...
    Series series Classics To Go
    An excerpt from the story: "Lies! lies! lies!" the old woman burst out suddenly, though in a strange, low tone, as if speaking to herself. "It would not have fallen--they knew it would not. It could not have fallen. It would never have fallen if they had not destroyed it. And even then--I was there when they pulled it down--each stone clung to each, with arms and legs and hands and claws, till ... Read more

    $3.12 CAD