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. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Īs a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

The eternal city by hall caine