In the preface to the book, the author indicates that there are actually two widely differing versions of the book. But the line I was expecting, and that I was reading the book to try to understand, just was not there. His best known works include: The Shadow of a Crime (1885), The Bondman (1890), The Scapegoat (1890), The Prodigal Son (1904), The White Prophet (1909) and The Woman Thou Gavest Me (1913). He came into contact with, and was influenced by, many of the leading personalities of the day. A man of striking appearance, he travelled widely and used his travels to provide the settings for some of his novels. To this end he published a number of serious works but these had little success. Caine acted as secretary to Dante Gabriel Rossetti and at one time he aspired to become a man of letters. His novels were primarily romantic in nature, involving the love triangle, but they did also address some of the more serious political and social issues of the day. In his time he was exceedingly popular and at the peak of his success his novels outsold those of his contemporaries. He is best known as a novelist and playwright of the late Victorian and the Edwardian eras. Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine CH, KBE (1853-1931), usually known as Hall Caine, was an English author.
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