Honey-Dew by Grant Allen (1898)
Honey-Dew is a novel by Grant Allen that tells the story of a young woman named Hilda Wade who becomes involved in a love triangle with two men, one of whom she eventually marries. The book explores themes of love, betrayal, and redemption, as well as social class and gender roles in Victorian England.
By Grant Allen · First published 1898 · Genre: Natural History, Science, Non-Fiction · 6,023 words
First lines
Place, the garden. Time, summer. Dramatis personae, a couple of small brown garden-ants, and a lazy clustering colony of wee green 'plant-lice,' or 'blight,' or aphides. The exact scene is usually on the young and succulent branches of a luxuriant rose-bush, into whose soft shoots the aphides have deeply buried their long trunk-like snouts, in search of the sap off which they live so contentedly through their brief lifetime. To them, enter the two small brown ants, their lawful possessors; for ants, too, though absolutely unrecognised by English law ('de minimis non curat lex,' says the legal aphorism), are nevertheless in their own commonwealth duly seised of many and various goods and chattels; and these same aphides, as everybody has heard, stand to them in pretty much the same position as cows stand to human herdsmen.
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Genres
- Natural History — The text provides a detailed observation and analysis of the behavior and life cycle of ants and aphides, focusing on their ecological interactions.
- Science — The work discusses scientific concepts such as parthenogenesis, natural selection, and evolutionary biology in the context of aphides and ants.
- Non-Fiction — The narrative is factual and informative, presenting real-world observations and scientific explanations without fictional elements.
- Educational — The text serves an educational purpose, explaining complex biological processes and relationships in an accessible manner.
Tags
fiction · romance · mystery · adventure · drama · historical · suspense · love · betrayal · family · friendship · secrets
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- Work type: Novel
- Author: Grant Allen
- Date: 1898 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Natural History, Science, Non-Fiction, Educational, Essay
- Length: 6,023 words
- Structure: 1 section, 46 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Difficult (College Level)
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