Download or read book The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories written by Grant Allen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories by Grant Allen.
Download or read book The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories written by Grant Allen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories" from Grant Allen. Canadian science writer and novelist (1848-1899).
Download or read book The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories written by Grant Allen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grant Allen was born in Canada, educated in France and the United Kingdom and worked in many places including Jamaica, during his lifetime. He was primarily a scientist, turning only to literature in later life. This is a collection of stories full of melodrama and intrigue.
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Download or read book Grant Allen The Beckoning Hand Other Stories written by Grant Allen and published by Miniature Masterpieces. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen was born on February 24th, 1848 at Alwington, near Kingston, Canada West (now part of Ontario). Home schooled until 13 when his family moved to England, Grant was to become a highly regarded science writer who branched out to a fiction career and became enormously popular. His work helped propel several genres of fiction and whilst his career was short it was enormously productive. Grant's scientific background enabled him to root much of his work in a plausibility that was denied to others. He had little fear in challenging a society that treated women as second class citizens and creating best sellers from such works. On October 25th 1899 Grant Allen died at his home in Hindhead, Haslemere, Surrey, England. He died just before finishing Hilda Wade. The novel's final episode, which he dictated to his friend, doctor and neighbour Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from his bed appeared under the appropriate title, The Episode of the Dead Man Who Spoke in 1900.
Download or read book The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories Esprios Classics written by Grant Allen and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 - October 25, 1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist, educated in England. He was a public promoter of evolution in the second half of the nineteenth century. After leaving his professorship, in 1876 he returned to England, where he turned his talents to writing, gaining a reputation for his essays on science and for literary works. A 2007 book by Oliver Sacks cites with approval one of Allen's early articles, "Note-Deafness" (a description of what became known as amusia, published in 1878 in the learned journal Mind). Allen's first books dealt with scientific subjects, and include Physiological Æsthetics (1877) and Flowers and Their Pedigrees (1886).
Download or read book The Beckoning Hand written by Grant Allen and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I had promised to take Mrs. Latham and Irene to see the French plays which werethen being acted by Marie Leroux's celebrated Palais Royal company. I wasn't at thetime exactly engaged to poor Irene: it has always been a comfort to me that I wasn'tengaged to her, though I knew Irene herself considered it practically equivalent toan understood engagement. We had known one another intimately from childhoodupward, for the Lathams were a sort of second cousins of ours, three timesremoved: and we had always called one another by our Christian names, and beenvery fond of one another in a simple girlish and boyish fashion as long as we couldeither of us remember. Still, I maintain, there was no definite understandingbetween us; and if Mrs. Latham thought I had been paying Irene attentions, shemust have known that a young man of two and twenty, with a decent fortune and anice estate down in Devonshire, was likely to look about him for a while before hethought of settling down and marrying quietly.
Download or read book The Beckoning Hand written by Grant Allen and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I had promised to take Mrs. Latham and Irene to see the French plays which werethen being acted by Marie Leroux's celebrated Palais Royal company. I wasn't at thetime exactly engaged to poor Irene: it has always been a comfort to me that I wasn'tengaged to her, though I knew Irene herself considered it practically equivalent toan understood engagement. We had known one another intimately from childhoodupward, for the Lathams were a sort of second cousins of ours, three timesremoved: and we had always called one another by our Christian names, and beenvery fond of one another in a simple girlish and boyish fashion as long as we couldeither of us remember. Still, I maintain, there was no definite understandingbetween us; and if Mrs. Latham thought I had been paying Irene attentions, shemust have known that a young man of two and twenty, with a decent fortune and anice estate down in Devonshire, was likely to look about him for a while before hethought of settling down and marrying quietly.
Download or read book The Beckoning Hand written by Grant Allen and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Next day, Mr. Vivian called on me at the Oxford and Cambridge, the address on the card I had given his daughter. I was in the club when he called, and I found him a pleasant, good-natured Cornishman, with very little that was strange or romantic in any way about him. He thanked me heartily, but not too effusively, for the care I had taken of Miss Vivian overnight; and he was not so overcome with parental emotion as not to smoke a very good Havana, or to refuse my offer of a brandy and seltzer. We got on very well together, and I soon gathered from what my new acquaintance said that, though he belonged to one of the best families in Cornwall, he had been an English merchant in Haiti, and had made his money chiefly in the coffee trade. He was a widower, I learned incidentally, and his daughters had been brought up for some years in England, though at their mother's request they had also passed part of their lives in convent schools in Paris and Rouen. "Mrs. Vivian was a Haitian, you know," he said casually: "Catholic of course. The girls are Catholics. They're good girls, though they're my own daughters; and Césarine, your friend of last night, is supposed to be clever. I'm no judge myself: I don't know about it. Oh, by the way, Césarine said she hadn't thanked you half enough herself yesterday, and I was to be sure and bring you round this afternoon to a cup of tea with us at Seymour Crescent." In spite of the impression Mdlle. Césarine had made upon me the night before, I somehow didn't feel at all desirous of meeting her again. I was impressed, it is true, but not favourably. There seemed to me something uncanny and weird about her which made me shrink from seeing anything more of her if I could possibly avoid it. And as it happened, I was luckily engaged that very afternoon to tea at Irene's. I made the excuse, and added somewhat pointedly—on purpose that it might be repeated to Mdlle. Césarine—"Miss Latham is a very old and particular friend of mine—a friend whom I couldn't for worlds think of disappointing."...
Download or read book Science Fiction written by Roger Luckhurst and published by Polity. This book was released on 2005-05-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new and timely cultural history of science fiction, Roger Luckhurst examines the genre from its origins in the late nineteenth century to its latest manifestations. The book introduces and explicates major works of science fiction literature by placing them in a series of contexts, using the history of science and technology, political and economic history, and cultural theory to develop the means for understanding the unique qualities of the genre. Luckhurst reads science fiction as a literature of modernity. His astute analysis examines how the genre provides a constantly modulating record of how human embodiment is transformed by scientific and technological change and how the very sense of self is imaginatively recomposed in popular fictions that range from utopian possibility to Gothic terror. This highly readable study charts the overlapping yet distinct histories of British and American science fiction, with commentary on the central authors, magazines, movements and texts from 1880 to the present day. It will be an invaluable guide and resource for all students taking courses on science fiction, technoculture and popular literature, but will equally be fascinating for anyone who has ever enjoyed a science fiction book.
Download or read book Transactions and Encounters written by Roger Luckhurst and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Irish Poor Law reform during the years of the Irish revolution and Irish Free State. This work is a significant addition to the growing historiography of the twentieth century which moves beyond political history, and demonstrates that concepts of respectability, social class and gender are central dynamics in Irish society. This book provides the first major study of local welfare practices and exploration of policies, attitudes and the poor.This monograph examines local public assistance regimes, institutional and child welfare, and hospital care. It charts the transformation of workhouses into a network of local authority welfare and healthcare institutions including county homes, county hospitals, and mother and baby homes.The book's exploration of welfare and healthcare during revolutionary and independent Ireland provides fresh and original insights into this critical juncture in Irish history. The book will appeal to Irish historians and those with interests in welfare, the Poor Law and the social history of medicine and institutions.
Download or read book Second Supplement to the Catalogue issued in 1884 of the Circulating and a Portion of the Intermediate Departments written by Worcester Free Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grant Allen written by Terence Rodgers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strikingly interdisciplinary figure in Victorian literary history, Grant Allen (1848-1899) has thus far managed to elude the focused scrutiny of contemporary scholarship. This collection offers a valuable analytical and bibliographical resource for the exploration of the man and his work. Grant Allen was a prolific novelist, essayist, and man of letters, who is best remembered today for his The Woman Who Did (1895), which gained fame and notoriety almost overnight through its exploration of female independence and sexuality outside marriage, precipitating rabid denunciations of the ’new woman.’ Allen engaged with a span of literary and cultural concerns in the late-Victorian period that extended beyond gender politics, however; equally important was his sustained intervention in debates about Darwinism, Spencerism, and evolution, on which subjects he was recognized as an authority and as the foremost popularizer alongside T. H. Huxley and Benjamin Kidd. Not only did Allen’s work link the literary and the scientific, it traversed the boundaries between elite and popular culture, demonstrating their interconnectedness. This was notable in his travel and environmental writings and in his experiments in orientalist and detective fiction, fantasy, and science fiction. The contributors to this collection approach the figure of Allen from diverse fields within Victorian studies, showing him to be a late-Victorian innovator but also an example of fin-de-siècle modernity. Grant Allen: Literature and Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle revisits the richly variegated profile of one of the most intriguing and significant polymaths of the turn of the century, recognizing his contribution to and influence on the key modernizing debates of the period.
Download or read book Catalogue of English Prose Fiction and Juvenile Books in the Chicago Public Library written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mount Despair and Other Stories written by David Christie Murray and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Invention of Telepathy 1870 1901 written by Roger Luckhurst and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Invention of Telepathy explores one of the enduring concepts to emerge from the late nineteenth century. Telepathy was coined by Frederic Myers in 1882. He defined it as 'the communication of any kind from one mind to another, independently of the recognised channels of sense'. By 1901 it had become a disputed phenomenon amongst physical scientists yet was the 'royal road' to the unconscious mind. Telepathy was discussed by eminent men and women of the day, including Sigmund Freud, Thomas Huxley, Henry and William James, Mary Kingsley, Andrew Lang, Vernon Lee, W.T. Stead, and Oscar Wilde. Did telepathy signal evolutionary advance or possible decline? Could it be a means of binding the Empire closer together, or was it used by natives to subvert imperial communications? Were women more sensitive than men, and if so why? Roger Luckhurst investigates these questions in a study that mixes history of science with cultural history and literary analysis.
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
