The Collected Works of Grant Allen E-Book

Grant Allen

• Herausgeber: PergamonMedia
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Serie: Highlights of World Literature
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

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Beschreibung

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 10000 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay • Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Babylon • Miss Cayley's Adventures • Anglo-Saxon Britain • My First Book:Various • Blood Royal • Strange Stories • The British Barbarians • Recalled to Life • The Mediterranean: Its Storied Cities and Venerable Ruins, H. D. Traill, Arthur Griffiths, T. G. Bonney, and E. A. R. Ball • Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose • The Woman Who Did • Ulysses S. GrantWalter Allen • The Great Taboo • Stories by English Authors: The Sea • The White Man's Foot • What's Bred in the Bone • Science in Arcady • The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories • Biographies of Working Men× heruntergelade • Wednesday the Tenth, A Tale of the South Pacific • The Evolutionist at Large • Philistia • Biographies of Working Men • Charles Darwin • Michael's Crag • Post-Prandial Philosophy

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

BABYLON

CHAPTER I. RURAL AMERICA.

CHAPTER II. RURAL ENGLAND.

CHAPTER III. PERNICIOUS LITERATURE.

CHAPTER IV. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY.

CHAPTER V. EMANCIPATION.

CHAPTER VI. ENTER A NEW ENGLANDER.

CHAPTER VII. THE DEACON FALTERS.

CHAPTER VIII. WOOD AND STONE.

CHAPTER IX. CONSPIRACY.

CHAPTER X. MINNA IMPROVES HERSELF.

CHAPTER XI. EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES.

CHAPTER XII. AN ARTISTIC ENGAGEMENT.

CHAPTER XIII. AN EVE IN EDEN.

CHAPTER XIV. MINNA GIVES NOTICE.

CHAPTER XV. A DOOR OPENS

CHAPTER XVI. COLIN'S DEPARTURE.

CHAPTER XVII. A LITTLE CLOUD LIKE A MAN'S HAND.

CHAPTER XVIII. HIRAM IN WONDERLAND.

CHAPTER XIX. UNWARRANTABLE INTRUSION.

CHAPTER XX. THE STRANDS CONVERGE.

CHAPTER XXI. COLIN SETTLES HIMSELF.

CHAPTER XXII. HIRAM GETS SETTLED.

CHAPTER XXIII. RECOGNITION.

CHAPTER XXIV. GWEN AND HIRAM.

CHAPTER XXV. MINNA BETTERS HERSELF.

CHAPTER XXVI. BREAKING UP.

CHAPTER XXVII. THE DEACON MAKES A GOOD END.

CHAPTER XXVIII. AN ART PATRON.

CHAPTER XXIX. A VIEW OF ROME, By Hiram Winthrop.

CHAPTER XXX. MINNA'S RESOLUTION.

CHAPTER XXXI. COUSINS.

CHAPTER XXXII. RE-ENTER GWEN.

CHAPTER XXXIII. CECCA.

CHAPTER XXXIV. HIRAM SEES LAND.

CHAPTER XXXV. MAN PROPOSES.

CHAPTER XXXVI. CECCA SHOWS HER HAND.

CHAPTER XXXVII. CECCA AND MINNA.

CHAPTER XXXVIII. GWEN HAS A VISITOR.

CHAPTER XXXIX. GWEN'S DECISION.

CHAPTER XL. AFTER THE STORM.

CHAPTER XLI. AUDOUIN'S MISTAKE.

CHAPTER XLII. A DISTINGUISHED CRITIC.

CHAPTER XLIII. THE SLOUGH OF DESPOND.

CHAPTER XLIV. THE CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.

CHAPTER XLV. HOVERING.

CHAPTER XLVI. AUDOUIN SINKS OR SWIMS.

CHAPTER XLVII. ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.

BLOOD ROYAL

A Novel

BLOOD ROYAL

CHAPTER I. PERADVENTURE.

CHAPTER II. THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE

CHAPTER III. DISCOUNTING IT.

CHAPTER IV. A ROYAL POURPARLER.

CHAPTER V. GOOD SOCIETY.

CHAPTER VI. THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING.

CHAPTER VII. AFFAIRS OF THE HEART.

CHAPTER VIII. AT 'OXFORD COLLEGE.'

CHAPTER IX. A SUDDEN RESOLVE.

CHAPTER X. MR. PLANTAGENET LIVES AGAIN.

CHAPTER XI. A TRAGEDY OR A COMEDY?

CHAPTER XII TRAGEDY WINS.

CHAPTER XIII. AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR.

CHAPTER XIV. BREAKING IT OFF.

CHAPTER XV. A WILLING PRISONER.

CHAPTER XVI. LOOKING ABOUT HIM.

CHAPTER XVII. IN SEARCH OF AN ANCESTOR.

CHAPTER XVIII. GOOD OUT OF EVIL.

FALLING IN LOVE

WITH OTHER ESSAYS

MORE EXACT BRANCHES OF SCIENCE

PREFACE

CONTENTS

FALLING IN LOVE

RIGHT AND LEFT

EVOLUTION

STRICTLY INCOG.

SEVEN-YEAR SLEEPERS

A FOSSIL CONTINENT

A VERY OLD MASTER

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

THUNDERBOLTS

HONEY-DEW

THE MILK IN THE COCO-NUT

FOOD AND FEEDING

DE BANANA

GO TO THE ANT

BIG ANIMALS

FOSSIL FOOD

OGBURY BARROWS

FISH OUT OF WATER

THE FIRST POTTER

THE RECIPE FOR GENIUS

DESERT SANDS

An African Millionaire

Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay

By Grant Allen

First published in 1897

CONTENTS

I

THE EPISODE OF THE MEXICAN SEER

II

THE EPISODE OF THE DIAMOND LINKS

III

THE EPISODE OF THE OLD MASTER

IV

THE EPISODE OF THE TYROLEAN CASTLE

V

THE EPISODE OF THE DRAWN GAME

VI

THE EPISODE OF THE GERMAN PROFESSOR

VII

THE EPISODE OF THE ARREST OF THE COLONEL

VIII

THE EPISODE OF THE SELDON GOLD-MINE

IX

THE EPISODE OF THE JAPANNED DISPATCH-BOX

X

THE EPISODE OF THE GAME OF POKER

XI

THE EPISODE OF THE BERTILLON METHOD

XII

THE EPISODE OF THE OLD BAILEY

EARLY BRITAIN. ANGLO-SAXON BRITAIN.

Table of Contents.

PREFACE.

ANGLO-SAXON BRITAIN.

CHAPTER I.

THE ORIGIN OF THE ENGLISH.

CHAPTER II.

THE ENGLISH BY THE SHORES OF THE BALTIC.

CHAPTER III.

THE ENGLISH SETTLE IN BRITAIN.

CHAPTER IV.

THE COLONISATION OF THE COAST.

CHAPTER V.

THE ENGLISH IN THEIR NEW HOMES.

CHAPTER VI.

THE CONQUEST OF THE INTERIOR.

CHAPTER VII.

THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF THE ENGLISH SETTLEMENT.

CHAPTER VIII.

HEATHEN ENGLAND.

CHAPTER IX.

THE CONVERSION OF THE ENGLISH.

CHAPTER X.

ROME AND IONA.

CHAPTER XI.

CHRISTIAN ENGLAND.

CHAPTER XII.

THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE KINGDOMS.

CHAPTER XIII.

THE RESISTANCE TO THE DANES.

CHAPTER XIV.

THE SAXONS AT BAY IN WESSEX.

CHAPTER XV.

THE RECOVERY OF THE NORTH.

CHAPTER XVI.

THE AUGUSTAN AGE AND THE LATER ANGLO-SAXON CIVILISATION.

CHAPTER XVII.

THE DECADENCE.

CHAPTER XVIII.

THE ANGLO-SAXON LANGUAGE.

CHAPTER XIX.

ANGLO-SAXON NOMENCLATURE.

CHAPTER XX.

ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE.

CHAPTER XXI.

ANGLO-SAXON INFLUENCES IN MODERN BRITAIN.

MISS CAYLEY'S ADVENTURES

I

THE ADVENTURE OF THE CANTANKEROUS OLD LADY

II

THE ADVENTURE OF THE SUPERCILIOUS ATTACHÉ

III

THE ADVENTURE OF THE INQUISITIVE AMERICAN

IV

THE ADVENTURE OF THE AMATEUR COMMISSION AGENT

V

THE ADVENTURE OF THE IMPROMPTU MOUNTAINEER

VI

THE ADVENTURE OF THE URBANE OLD GENTLEMAN

VII

THE ADVENTURE OF THE UNOBTRUSIVE OASIS

VIII

THE ADVENTURE OF THE PEA-GREEN PATRICIAN

IX

THE ADVENTURES OF THE MAGNIFICENT MAHARAJAH

X

THE ADVENTURE OF THE CROSS-EYED Q.C.

XI

THE ADVENTURE OF THE ORIENTAL ATTENDANT

XII

THE ADVENTURE OF THE UNPROFESSIONAL DETECTIVE

'PHYSIOLOGICAL ÆSTHETICS' AND 'PHILISTIA'

THE WOMAN WHO DID

PREFACE