Download The Great Taboo by Grant Allen. A 1890 adventure fiction and science fiction work about Pacific adventure, taboo, anthropology, evolutionary speculation, island society, danger and the confrontation between curiosity and sacred authority. Available in PDF, EPUB, MOBI and AZW3 formats.
About The Great Taboo
The Great Taboo by Grant Allen is a 1890 adventure fiction and science fiction work about Pacific adventure, taboo, anthropology, evolutionary speculation, island society, danger and the confrontation between curiosity and sacred authority. Ideal for readers interested in late Victorian fiction and nonfiction, popular science, social reform, adventure, early crime stories, New Woman fiction and the literature of ideas.
Genres: Adventure Fiction | Science Fiction
Why Read The Great Taboo?
The Great Taboo is worth reading because it shows Allen's ability to turn scientific curiosity, travel and danger into brisk adventure. His plots often use unfamiliar places or urgent journeys to test confidence, courage and cultural assumptions. First published in 1890, the work is concerned with Pacific adventure, taboo, anthropology, evolutionary speculation, island society, danger and the confrontation between curiosity and sacred authority. Allen was unusually versatile, and this title reflects the way his writing often crosses boundaries between entertainment, argument, science, reform and social observation.
Readers may value the book for its combination of period flavour and intellectual energy. Allen was not simply telling stories or explaining facts; he was repeatedly interested in how people think, inherit beliefs, respond to evidence, and live within social systems that can feel both natural and constructed. That makes his fiction and nonfiction useful for readers who want to understand the late Victorian imagination from more than one angle.
The title also belongs to a body of work shaped by evolutionary thinking, public debate and the changing role of women, science, empire, education and professional knowledge. Some assumptions in Allen's work belong firmly to his age and should be read critically, especially where colonial language, gender theory or social hierarchy appear. Even so, his writing remains significant because it shows a mind trying to interpret modern life with the tools of science, narrative and polemic.
This title adds to the Grant Allen collection by showing another facet of a writer who moved between popular science, New Woman fiction, adventure, crime, biography and speculative social commentary. The Great Taboo can be read for story, information or historical context, but it is especially useful as part of the larger pattern: Allen repeatedly asks how knowledge changes conduct, how convention resists change, and how individuals negotiate a world being remade by new ideas.
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