PREFACE
I desire to express my profound indebtedness, for
the central mythological idea embodied in this tale,
to Mr. J.G. Frazer’s admirable and epoch-making
work, “The Golden Bough...
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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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The Great Taboo
Grant Allen