Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Grant Allen

Allen, Grant, 1848-1899Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Grant Allen by Grant AllenAuthor: Allen, Grant, 1848-1899,Language: English, Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature, Release Date: Oct 9, 2018

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This is an index page of Grant Allen's works in Project Gutenberg; it is not a complete work itself but a catalog-style entry point to his novels, essays and reviews. Allen was a prolific late nineteenth-century British writer whose work spans fiction, essays and popular science writing. The value of this index is that it helps readers quickly locate available electronic texts and observe the distribution of his output across genres. It suits use as a bibliographic tool or a starting point for a reading route, not for continuous reading. Begin by browsing the categories of entries, try one or two representative works, then return to the index to expand. For researchers it makes it easy to check the scope of Project Gutenberg's holdings; for general readers it is more like a map of free e-books.

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About the author

Allen, Grant, 1848-1899 Author

Grant Allen (1848–1899) was a late nineteenth-century British writer known both for science writing and fiction. Thirty of his works are held in the collection, spanning science fiction, detective stories, social novels, and popular science essays. His novel The Woman Who Did stirred controversy for its treatment of female independence and marriage morality; An African Millionaire presents humorous satire through the serial exploits of the swindler Colonel Clay; Hilda Wade and Miss Cayley's Adventures create determined female protagonists. In popular science, Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science and Anglo-Saxon Britain show his skill in making science accessible, while Biographies of Working Men focuses on ordinary laborers. Public information on his life is limited, but his works reveal a gift for combining scientific reason with popular narrative, giving him a place in late Victorian popular literature.