The Legacy of Cain

The Legacy of Cain is the novel by the famed English author Wilkie Collins. The story is that of the age-old question of nature versus nurture. Can one escape their family legacy? A condemned women asks a local minister to take her daughter after she is convicted of murder. Is the daughter doomed to repeat the sins of the mother or will the minister end the legacy? Odin’s Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind’s literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.