Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: grant allan

17 resultados

grant allan Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • PHILISTIA
    ebook
    PHILISTIA
    GRANT ALLAN
    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, mo...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • WOLVERDEN TOWER
    ebook
    WOLVERDEN TOWER
    GRANT ALLAN
    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...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • ANGLO-SAXON BRITAIN
    ebook
    ANGLO-SAXON BRITAIN
    GRANT ALLAN
    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. ...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • WEDNESDAY THE TENTH; A TALE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC
    ebook
    WEDNESDAY THE TENTH; A TALE OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC
    GRANT ALLAN
    "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...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • BABYLON
    ebook
    BABYLON
    GRANT ALLAN
    "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 Mu...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • THE BRITISH BARBARIANS
    ebook
    THE BRITISH BARBARIANS
    GRANT ALLAN
    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. ...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • MISS CAYLEY'S ADVENTURES
    ebook
    MISS CAYLEY'S ADVENTURES
    GRANT ALLAN
    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 character...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • THE BECKONING HAND, AND OTHER STORIES
    ebook
    THE BECKONING HAND, AND OTHER STORIES
    GRANT ALLAN
    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 T...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • THE WHITE MAN'S FOOT
    ebook
    THE WHITE MAN'S FOOT
    GRANT ALLAN
    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...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • RECALLED TO LIFE
    ebook
    RECALLED TO LIFE
    GRANT ALLAN
    "My babyhood, my childhood, my girlhood, my school-days were all utterly blotted out by that one strange shock of horror. My past life became exactly as though it had never been. I forgot my own name. I forgot my mother-tongue. I forgot everything I had ever done or known or thought about…" Excerpt) ...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • HILDA WADE: A WOMAN WITH TENACITY OF PURPOSE
    ebook
    HILDA WADE: A WOMAN WITH TENACITY OF PURPOSE
    GRANT ALLAN
    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) ...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • WHAT'S BRED IN THE BONE
    ebook
    WHAT'S BRED IN THE BONE
    GRANT ALLAN
    The convoluted and colourful plot of "What's Bred In The Bone" 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 identities and scenes...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • THE WOMAN WHO DID
    ebook
    THE WOMAN WHO DID
    GRANT ALLAN
    "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 ...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • MICHAEL'S CRAG
    ebook
    MICHAEL'S CRAG
    GRANT ALLAN
    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...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • MY NEW YEAR'S EVE AMONG THE MUMMIES
    ebook
    MY NEW YEAR'S EVE AMONG THE MUMMIES
    GRANT ALLAN
    J. Arbuthnot Wilson (pseudonym of the real author, Grant Wilson) 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 th...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • AN AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE
    ebook
    AN AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE
    GRANT ALLAN
    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? ...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • THE THAMES VALLEY CATASTROPHE
    ebook
    THE THAMES VALLEY CATASTROPHE
    GRANT ALLAN
    This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. In "The Thames Valley Catastrophe" by Grant Allen, readers are taken on a thrilling journey through a post-apocalyptic world where the River Thames has dried up, leaving behind a desolate landscape and a society on the brink of collapse. As the residents of the Thames Valley struggle to survive i...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle