What's Bred in the Bone - Grant Allen
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This was the top-prize-winning novel from 20,000 entries in one of
the richest literary awards ever offered in Britain. Its convoluted
and colorful plot turns on questions of heredity and atavism: the
ancestry of the Waring twin brothers and of Elma Clifford. Elma
comes on her mother's side from a line of gypsy snake dancers, and
she displays a periodic urge to dance wildly with a feather boa in
her bedroom. A murderous judge, multiple mistaken identities and
scenes of tribal life in South Africa decorate this extraordinary
novel, which is certainly a testament to Grant Allen's versatility
and grasp of the popular market.Excerpt: "Elma felt sure she was
mad that night. And, if so, oh, how could she poison Cyril Waring's
life with so unspeakable an inheritance for himself and his
children? She didn't know, what any psychologist might at once have
told her, that no one with the fatal taint of madness in her blood
could ever even have thought of that righteous self-denial. Such
scruples have no place in the selfish insane temperament; they
belong only to the highest and purest types of moral nature."In his
biography of Allen, Professor Peter Morton says about this book:
"Twice in his career Allen finds he has a great popular success on
his hands. What's Bred in the Bone (1891), a sensational thriller
written to order at top speed, secures him one of the largest
literary prizes ever awarded in Britain: a thousand pounds from
George Newnes, the publishers of the magazine Tit-Bits. What's Bred
in the Bone comes first in a field of 20,000 entrants to take the
prize. It sells hugely in its first year, goes into seventeen
impressions, appears in the form of a silent film in 1916, and is
translated into several languages, including Icelandic. Nothing
demonstrates better Allen's cold-blooded judgment in analysing and
meeting the popular taste." The novel was published serially in
1890 and 1891.(Reference: Peter Morton's website about Grant Allen
https://sites.google.com/site/petermortonswebsite/.)
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