The Legacy of Cain
Author | : Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1800 |
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Author | : Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1800 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2022-11-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
The Legacy of Cain is a mystery novel by Wilkie Collins. When a convicted woman begs the local Priest to take her daughter home, the childless man is moved and finds himself incapable of refusing. Yet the prisoner is unremorseful of the killing of her husband. Will her sins be passed on to this apparently adorable child?
Author | : Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1427060258 |
Author | : Jeanne Safer |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2012-01-03 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0465029442 |
Bonds between brothers and sisters are among the longest lasting and most emotionally significant of human relationships. But while 45 percent of adults struggle with serious sibling strife, few discuss it openly. Even fewer resolve it to their satisfaction. In Cain's Legacy, psychotherapist Jeanne Safer, a recognized authority on sibling psychology (and an estranged sister herself) illuminates this pervasive but hidden phenomenon. She explores the roots of inter-sibling woes, from siblicide in the book of Genesis to tensions in Freud's family history. Drawing on sixty in-depth interviews with adult siblings struggling with conflicts over money, family businesses, aging parents, contentious wills, unhealed childhood wounds, and blocked communication, Safer provides compassionate guidance to brothers and sisters whose relationship is broken. She helps siblings overcome their paralysis and pain, revealing how they can come to terms with the one peer relationship they can never sever--even if they never see each other again. A heartfelt look at a too-often avoided topic, Cain's Legacy is a sympathetic and clear-eyed guide to navigating the darkness separating us from our brothers and sisters.
Author | : Wilkie Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2017-11-25 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781981113170 |
When a condemned woman asks the local Minister to take her daughter home, the childless man is touched and finds himself unable to refuse. Yet the prisoner is unrepentant of the murder of her husband. Will her vices be passed on to this seemingly sweet child?
Author | : Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 2018-01-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780483109094 |
Excerpt from The Legacy of Cain: A Novel AT the request of a person who has claims on me that I must not disown, I consent to look back through a long interval of years and to describe events which took place within the walls of an English prison during the earlier period of my appointment as Governor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 1888 |
Genre | : Adopted children |
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Author | : Wilkie Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2015-05-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781514123416 |
When a condemned woman asks the local Minister to take her daughter home, the childless man is touched and finds himself unable to refuse. Yet the prisoner is unrepentant of the murder of her husband. Will her vices be passed on to this seemingly sweet child.
Author | : Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1906 |
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Author | : Wilkie Collins |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2016-06-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781534758285 |
The Legacy of Cain explores the theme of hereditary evil, and attacks the idea that 'bad blood' necessarily results in a criminality. The main story begins in 1875. Helena and Eunice are sisters brought up by their father, the Reverend Abel Gracedieu. He has deliberately kept them in ignorance of their true ages because the elder daughter was adopted in 1858, after her natural mother was executed for the brutal murder of her husband. The story's main narrator is the prison governor who always feared the adoption would end badly because of the taint of inherited evil. The household is joined by the minister's impoverished cousin, Selina Jillgall, to whom Helena takes an immediate dislike. The good-natured Eunice, however, becomes very friendly with Miss Jillgall whose only other ally is a Mrs Tegenbruggen. In 1858 she was Elizabeth Chance, lover of Eunice's murdered father. Mrs Tegenbruggen is determined to discover which daughter is the elder and make trouble.