_399,426 copies of English editions sold to date._
This is the novel most generally associated with Hall Caine's name.
Two men, who love each other like David and Jonathan, are separated
by the love each bears for the same woman, Kate Cregeen. The one is
married to her, and by the other, in circumstances of tragic
temptation, she has been betrayed. Out of this complication comes
situations of searching pathos, culminating in a public confession
and a great renunciation. The scene throughout is the Isle of Man,
and the deeply injured husband and friend, Pete Quilliam, has become
one of the best known figures in modern fiction and on the stage.
Mr. Gladstone, who was a warm admirer of it, said, that though he
disapproved of divorce, he recognised the integrity of the author's
aim. Nearly 400,000 of the English edition has been sold already.
It is a love story of great intensity.
_T. P. O'Connor_ says: "This is a very fine and great story--one of
the finest and greatest of our time."