Pros - Good points on how stupid some customs are. Humorous when the man from the future gets one over on someone, or if the uptight brother is made fun of.

Cons - Author doesn't seem to like Scottish people, is a bit odd or old fashioned himself about women.

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

Questi barbari inglesi”, traduzione di “The British Barbarians”, di Grant Allen, edito da Marchetti, apre la collana “Dodo d’oro”, formata da opere in lingua inglese che, per vari motivi, sono scomparse della memoria culturale e quindi non sono mai state tradotte in italiano prima d’ora.

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Amusing at first, but eventually I got tired of the digs at social norms that the author doesn't like, ones that aren't as horrible as the author paints them. The author falls into the regular trap of discounting and making fun of anything not "rational," "reasonable," or that can be proven with the

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

There is no doubt that Wells was first with “The Time Machine”, but it is interesting that Grant Allen’s “The British Barbarians” was published the same year, and also deals with time travel. Both novels make a comment on society, though Allen reverses the direction of the time travel, by having a m