"The Legacy of Cain" by Wilkie Collins is a late 19th-century novel that starts in a somber English prison, exploring the complicated moral issues surrounding a woman convicted of murder, known as The Prisoner. The story looks at ideas of fairness, regret, and what makes someone evil, while also showing us the lives of important people like a caring chaplain, a troubled governor, and the woman about to be executed. The book introduces the prison governor, who thinks about everything that led to the execution of a woman who killed her husband, a man who also had his own problems. The story shares the Prisoner's mental struggles, her conversations with the chaplain and a visiting minister, and her feelings as a mother as she faces her upcoming death and worries about what will happen to her young daughter, creating a tense situation where characters deal with their jobs and feelings as they face an approaching tragedy, leading to an inspiring look at guilt, forgiveness, and the lasting effects of our choices.
The Legacy of Cain
By Wilkie Collins
In a chilling prison drama, a woman confronts her imminent execution as complex relationships and moral questions arise, forcing a community to examine guilt, redemption, and the far-reaching consequences of human actions.
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About the AuthorWilliam Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (1868), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.
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