The Legacy of Cain. Wilkie Collins

Языкознание.

Скачать книгу
Читать онлайн

The Legacy of Cain


Год выпуска 0

isbn 9783849658502

Автор произведения Wilkie Collins

Жанр Языкознание

Серия

Издательство Bookwire


Wilkie Collins' last-but-one novel was originally published in 1889. The Reverend Abel Gracedieu raises two daughters. One of them was adopted seventeen years before the story starts because her mother was executed for murdering her husband. The main question of the plot is whether this adoption will not end in a very bad away because the daughter is allegedly as evil and wicked as her mother ….