Most of Grant Allen's fiction is now forgotten and nearly all of it is out of print. His detective stories, however, many of which first appeared in the Strand Magazine, have earned critical praise, and volumes of his detective fiction are now sought by...
In the chapter of his Experiment in Autobiography (1934) called "Fairly Launched at Last," H. G. Wells looks back at the influence upon him at the beginning of his literary career. He recalls in particular that once much reviled and now rather too much f...
Prolific, versatile, original, even profound, Grant Allen dedicated his life to the quest for incontrovertible knowledge through the written word. Celebrated not only as a writer of literature and criticism but as a historian, naturalist, anthropologist,...
THE ARMIES of civilisation had pinned down the savage hordes in a distant corner of their island. Now the rabble of 30,000 barbarians would have to stand and fight. Defeat at the hands of law and progress was certain but, before the rout, a...
THE TORY leader, Iain Duncan Smith, was under pressure last night formally to discipline Lord Tebbit after the former party chairman used an extreme right-wing website to call for a "civilisation" test for British Muslims. The Tory peer infuriated anti-racism campaigners by arguing...
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