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Falling in Love (Paperback)
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Falling in Love (Paperback)
Series: Mint Editions
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List price R371
Loot Price R313
Discovery Miles 3 130
You Save R58 (16%)
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Falling in Love (1889) is a brilliant collection of essays by
innovative Canadian writer Grant Allen. His wide-ranging interests
and unique, personal tone present science in a style that not only
makes difficult concepts digestible to the average reader, but also
presages the popularity of New Journalism in the latter half of the
twentieth century. In the title essay, Allen moves from analysis of
the evolutionary implications of love to a blistering critique of
the institution of marriage. Central to this piece is a rejection
of matchmaking according to religion, race, and rank, which Allen
makes with the hope that "marriage for love...will last for ever."
Allen was a writer unafraid of ruffling feathers, a tireless
individual who delighted in dissecting and ejecting convention. In
"British and Foreign," Allen looks at the non-indigenous nature of
so much of Britain's environment to argue that, in the end, "there
is nothing really and truly British." Allen was also, perhaps more
than anything else, a deeply curious man, a person for whom no
topic was unworthy of questioning. In "Honey-Dew," as though under
a microscope, he examines the remarkable coexistence between ants
and aphids to not only highlight the intricate webs that make up
the natural world, but to expose humanity's outsized, and often
helpless, role in the life of the planet. Other essays in Falling
in Love find Allen espousing on the nonexistence of thunderbolts,
composing a treatise on the sociopolitical history of the banana,
and saying what he would have said on an archaeological expedition
(had he been asked). For Allen, humor is never too far from
insight, and insight is always within reach. Falling in Love is
both a pleasure to read and intoxicating, a work for readers
intrigued by science or looking for a fresh voice to cut through
the world's confusion. Grant Allen was not just a novelist and
essayist, but a writer's writer whose words read as clearly as
though they were written yesterday. With a beautifully designed
cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this new edition of
Grant Allen's Falling in Love is an understated classic of literary
nonfiction reimagined for modern readers.
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