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  • Miss Cayley's Adventures

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    par Grant Allan ...
    Collections series
    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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Anglo-Saxon Britain

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    par Grant Allan ...
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    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. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. ... En savoir plus

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  • The Woman Who Did

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    "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", ... En savoir plus

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  • Hilda Wade: A Woman With Tenacity of Purpose

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    par 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) This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. ... En savoir plus

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  • Philistia

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    par Grant Allan ...
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    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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The British Barbarians

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    par Grant Allan ...
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    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. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. ... En savoir plus

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  • Wednesday the Tenth; A Tale of the South Pacific

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    par Grant Allan ...
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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 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The White Man's Foot

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    par Grant Allan ...
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    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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Babylon

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    "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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Michael's Crag

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    par Grant Allan ...
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    Michael Trevennack is an elderly English civil servant who spends his holidays on the Cornish coast staring out at a rock formation known as St. Michael's Crag. Fifteen years earlier, a hundred or so feet below, he and his only son were stuck by falling rocks. The boy was killed, while Trevennack was left with a blood clot in the brain that has him convinced he is the archangel Michael. (Goodreads ... En savoir plus

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  • The Beckoning Hand, and other stories

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    par Grant Allan ...
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    The title story calls on Allan's experience in Jamaica to help create a strong tale of voodoo. "The Third Time" is a dark story about alcoholism. "The Gold Wulfric" is a numismatic mystery. "The Two Carnegies" explores in a tragic mode the uncanny connection between identical twins. "Olga Davidoff's Husband" is set in Siberia and Kent and mixes violence and love. "John Cann's Treasure" concerns a ... En savoir plus

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  • Wolverden Tower

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    par Grant Allan ...
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    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 ... En savoir plus

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