The Blind Mother and The Last Confession (1893) is a collection of
two novellas by British master of fiction Hall Caine. In the Lake
District of northwest England, a young blind woman named Mercy
lives with her son and elderly father on land passed down through
generations. After failing both as a farmer and as a
prospector-they live in country known for its rich veins of
copper-her father gives up their rights to the land to Hugh Ritson,
a local statesman's son and mining engineer. Soon enough, Ritson
strikes copper, makes a profit on the land, and becomes the father
of Mercy's child-before marrying the beautiful Greta. The Blind
Mother is a tale of tragedy and the bond between women whose lives
depend on men who fail them, time and again. In The Last
Confession, a physician from London seeks mercy from a Spanish
priest while laying on his deathbed. At times calmly, at others
filled with wild desperation, the man recounts how he was
encouraged to travel to North Africa to cure, or at least
alleviate, his neurasthenia. While in Morocco, he meets a man he
calls the American, who navigates this foreign world with ease and
soon sweeps the narrator into a world of crime. When the physician
gets a letter from England informing him of his young son's
terrible illness, he decides to break from his companion, only to
be followed every step of the way by a ruthless assassin. Caine's
novella, the second in this collection, is a story of desperation,
love, and guilt that searches the soul at its limit. These
deceptively simple novellas combine straightforward narratives with
intricate natural detail and a deep understanding of human
psychology. Hall Caine's The Blind Mother and The Last Confession
is a work about ordinary people faced with extraordinary
circumstances, and remains, over a century after it was published,
an essential piece of English literature. Although he was one of
the most famous and acclaimed authors of his time, Caine's work
remains relatively unknown today. With this edition, it is hoped
that Hall Caine once again receives not only the attention he
deserves, but the respect and admiration his work demands. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Hall Caine's The Blind Mother and The Last
Confession is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern
readers.
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