This is a story of sin and suffering and redemption. A young man of
great possibilities, Dan Mylrea, having his good angel and his bad
angel on either hand, commits, in a wild fit of momentary passion, a
terrible crime, is condemned (by his own father, who is the ultimate
judge) to life-long banishment and solitude, is purified and ennobled
by his solitary life and finally returns to the society of his
fellow-men as the saviour of his people. The scene is the Isle of
Man, the period the eighteenth century. This story was the first to
give Hall Caine his place among British Novelists, being commonly
compared with the work of Victor Hugo. It was published in 1887, has
since sold in vast numbers and been translated into nearly all
European languages.
_The Scotsman_ says: "This is one of the great novels."