THE EPISODE OF THE MEXICAN SEER
My name is Seymour Wilbraham Wentworth. I am
brother-in-law and secretary to Sir Charles Vandrift,
the South African millionaire and famous financier.
Many ...
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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, a...
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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 cri...
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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 parti...
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An African Millionaire
Grant Allen