Um dilema mortal: tradução do conto “A deadly dilemma” de Grant Allen

Abstract

Grant Allen was a Canadian author who lived in the XIX Century, with a huge number of works, he wrote both fiction and scientific papers related to Biology and other themes. Allen has never been translated to Portuguese, which drew my attention to research on him. His most notorious novel was The Woman Who Did (1895), a story about a woman who does not subject herself to the doctrine of her time. The author had a moving life, born in Canada in 1848, he lived across the world, such as in the United States, France, Jamaica and England, where he passed away in 1899. A Deadly Dilemma was a short story launched in The Strand Magazine in January 1891. It tells the story of a young lad before a deadly dilemma: save his loving partner or save a train full of passengers. However, the dilemma becomes more problematic when his own actions have placed him in such position.