Fiction · 1898
Linnet
A Romance
In the Tyrolese village of St Valentin, two English travelers — the affected aesthete Florian Wood and his practical friend, the poet Will Deverill — hear the innkeeper Andreas Hausberger describe a mountain girl with an extraordinary voice. Linnet herds cows on the high pastures by day; once her talent is discovered, she becomes the prize in a contest between the men eager to shape her future as a singer.
Grant Allen, better known for his controversial novel The Woman Who Did, published Linnet: A Romance in 1898 through Grant Richards in London.
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Contents
- Epigraph
- Note
- Chapter I — “To Introduce Mr Florian Wood”
- Chapter II — A Fresh Acquaintance
- Chapter III — Within Sight of a Heroine
- Chapter IV — Enter Linnet
- Chapter V — The Wirth’s Theory
- Chapter VI — The Robbler
- Chapter VII — Wager of Battle
- Chapter VIII — The Human Heart
- Chapter IX — The Man of the World
- Chapter X — Hail, Columbia!
- Chapter XI — Private Inquiry
- Chapter XII — The Madding Crowd
- Chapter XIII — A First Night
- Chapter XIV — And If for Ever
- Chapter XV — A Critical Evening
- Chapter XVI — Schloss Tyrol
- Chapter XVII — Caught Out
- Chapter XVIII — Taken by Surprise
- Chapter XIX — Spiritual Weapons
- Chapter XX — Florian on Matrimony
- Chapter XXI — Fortune’s Wheel
- Chapter XXII — A Woman’s Stratagem
- Chapter XXIII — A Prophet Indeed!
- Chapter XXIV — The Art of Prophesying
- Chapter XXV — A Dramatic Venture
- Chapter XXVI — A Woman’s Heart
- Chapter XXVII — Auld Lang Syne
- Chapter XXVIII — Signora Casalmonte
- Chapter XXIX — From Linnet’s Standpoint
- Chapter XXX — An Unexpected Visitor
- Chapter XXXI — When Greek Meets Greek
- Chapter XXXII — Wedded Felicity
- Chapter XXXIII — Playing with Fire
- Chapter XXXIV — An Old Acquaintance
- Chapter XXXV — Golden Hopes
- Chapter XXXVI — An Ecclesiastical Question
- Chapter XXXVII — Beginnings of Evil
- Chapter XXXVIII — Husband or Lover?
- Chapter XXXIX — Documentary Evidence
- Chapter XL — Open War
- Chapter XLI — God’s Law—Or Man’s?
- Chapter XLII — Prudence
- Chapter XLIII — Linnet’s Rival
- Chapter XLIV — And Will’s
- Chapter XLV — By Authority
- Chapter XLVI — Home Again!
- Chapter XLVII — Seemingly Unconnected
- Chapter XLVIII — The Bubble Bursts
- Chapter XLIX — The Pigeon Flies Home
- Chapter L — Andreas Hausberger Pays
- Chapter LI — Exit Franz Lindner
- Chapter LII — A Confession of Faith
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About the author
1848–1899 · Victorian
Grant Allen (1848–1899) was born near Kingston, Ontario, the son of an Irish-born clergyman, and was educated in France, England and at Merton College, Oxford. He began as a science writer, publishing Physiological Aesthetics (1877), before turning to fiction under the pseudonym J. Arbuthnot Wilson. His novel The Woman Who Did (1895), about a woman who rejects marriage, scandalized readers and became a bestseller; he also wrote the crime collection An African Millionaire (1897) and the romance Linnet (1898). He died of liver cancer at his home in Hindhead, Surrey, leaving his last novel, Hilda Wade, to be finished by his friend and neighbor Arthur Conan Doyle.
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