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The British Barbarians

Grant Allen

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After Civil Servant Philip Christy crosses paths with the mysterious Bertram Ingledew in the respectable suburb of Brackenhurst, Philip and his sister Frida, married to the wealthy Scot Robert Monteith, become friends with the stranger. Bertram has some unconventional concepts about society, and as the story unfolds, his beliefs and actions cause much disruption in the family and the neighbourhood.
aware of the slight he was putting upon the respectability of Brackenhurst by appearing on Sunday in his grey tweed suit; so he only held out his hand as to an ordinary friend, with the simple words, "You were so extremely kind to me last night, Mr. Christy, that as I happen to know nobody here in England, I ventured to come round and ask your advice in unexpected circumstances that have since arisen."

When Bertram Ingledew looked at him, Philip once more relented. The man's eye was so captivating. To say the truth, there was something taking about the mysterious stranger—a curious air of unconscious superiority—so that, the moment he came near, Philip felt himself fascinated. He only answered, therefore, in as polite a tone as he could easily muster, "Why, how did you get to know my name, or to trace me to my sister's?"

"Oh, Miss Blake told me who you were and where you lived," Bertram replied most innocently: his tone was pure candour; "and when I went round to your lodgings just now, they explained that you were out, but that I should probably find you at Mrs. Monteith's; so of course I came on here."

Philip denied the applicability of that naive "of course" in his inmost soul: but it was no use being angry with Mr. Bertram Ingledew. So much he saw at once; the man was so simple-minded, so transparently natural, one could not be angry with him. One could only smile at him, a superior cynical London-bred smile, for an unsophisticated foreigner. So the Civil Servant asked with a condescending air, "Well, what's your difficulty? I'll see if peradventure I can help you out of it." For he reflected to himself in a flash that as Ingledew had apparently a good round sum in gold and notes in his pocket yesterday, he was not likely to come borrowing money this morning.

"It's like this, you see," the Alien answered with charming simplicity, "I haven't got any luggage."

"Not go

J. 06/30/2024
Grant Allen's satirical novel, "The British Barbarians," opens with the civil servant and image-of-propriety, Philip Christy encountering an interesting though enigmatic gentleman named Bertram Ingledew, who explains his ignorance of England's social norms by saying that he is "an Alien", which Chr
Richard 06/30/2022
The introduction mentions that the author forgoes serialization to publish the book directly ( giving up a tidy part of his remuneration ). This is even further explained that he, kind of, self published this book, because it many magazine and publisher thought it not acceptable subject.

It wholehear
Sean 02/05/2014
For about three-quarters of this book I thought I might be reading some lost classic -- a time travel novel that fell into obscurity simply because it came out a couple months after Welles' The Time Machine, a social satire forgotten because it was too far ahead of its time -- but then the author re
Vance 09/04/2011
Whereas Allen at times offers social commentary of astonishing subtlety, the opinions expounded in The British Barbarians are about as subtle as a train wreck. This is essentially a two-hundred page sermon on the evils of a society in which the author apparently found little worthy of praise. While

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