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    Blood Royal: A Novel
    Blood Royal: A Novel
    Blood Royal: A Novel
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    Blood Royal: A Novel

    By Grant Allen

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    Grant Allen, a science writer, a novelist, and a successful upholder of the theory of evolution, authored "Blood Royal." A piece from the first chapter of the book read thus "Chiddingwick High Street is one of the quaintest and most picturesque bits of old town architecture to be found in England. Narrow at either end, it broadens suddenly near the middle, by a sweeping curve outward, just opposite the White Horse, where the weekly cattle market is held, and where the timbered gable-ends cluster thickest round the ancient stone cross, now reduced as usual to a mere stump or relic..."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateMay 19, 2021
    ISBN4064066202453
    Blood Royal: A Novel
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    Grant Allen

    Grant Allen (1848-1899) was a Canadian novelist and science writer. While his early writing in the fields of psychology, botany, and entomology sought to support Charles Darwin’s work on evolutionary theory, Allen later turned to fiction and eventually wrote around 30 novels. Friends with Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen was a lesser-known early innovator in crime and detective fiction. His wide-ranging literary output, which influenced William James, G.K. Chesterton, and Sigmund Freud, was often deemed controversial for its critical views on social constructs such as marriage, gender, and religion.

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