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What's Bred in the Bone
Grant Allen
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Mr. Reginald Clifford, C.M.G., sometime Administrator of the island of St. Kitts, gazed at his wife in blank astonishment. She spoke decidedly; he had never heard her speak with such firmness in his life before. It fairly took his breath away. He gazed at his wife blankly as he repeated to himself in very slow and solemn tones, each word distinct, "You, for one, won't try to prevent her!"
"No, I won't," Mrs. Clifford retorted defiantly, assured in her own mind she was acting right. "Elma's really in love with him; and I won't let Elma's life be wrecked—as some lives have b. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Surprisingly readable over the century plus since its release. Mix Murder on the Orient Express, A Comedy of Errors and Crime and Punishment with a veneer of Austen, discussion of nature / nurture, preliminary feminism and spiritual symbolism and voila! What a gem!
A very good novel featuring murder, romance, a snake, and a mind-reading young Gipsy woman, written by a Canadian (born in Kingston, ON in 1848, Grant Allen was likely a British subject until Canada attained independence on July 1, 1867) author with great knowledge of 19th-century English society. I
This was surprisingly fun to read. A comedy of errors..a complicated journey and highly recommended.
An old-fashioned but excellent mystery tale with a nice twist. Light reading at its best.
The author, Grant Allen, was born in Canada but grew up in the US, France, and England. I was first drawn to this book, "What's Bred in the Bone" (published in 1890) by the title. A prolific Canadian Jungian psychologist, Robertson Davies, also wrote a book called "What's Bred in the Bone" (among ma
For a novel first published in 1890 in a series it is rollicking good mystery thriller.
While some of the views accepted by the author about woman grate they are of their time.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Its convoluted and colorful plot turns on questions of heredity and atavism: the ancestry of the Waring twin
As literature this is a preposterous pile of Victorian sentimental novel cliches, including identical twins of mysterious parentage, mistaken identity, a Bad Man and more than one Man with a Secret Past, gypsy clairvoyance and snake charming, exile to the diamond mines of South Africa, and of course