# Hall Caine, the Man and the Novelist

Author: Kenyon, C. Fred (Charles Frederick), 1879-1926

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57564

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Hall+Caine%2C+the+Man+and+the+Novelist+Kenyon&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The keynote of Hall Caine’s character, both as a man and as a novelist, is sincerity, and the deepest thing in him is love of humanity. He is dominated by the ambition to get out of the realm of thought all that is best and wisest, and from his heart a stream of love for suffering, tortured humanity is constantly flowing. Heart and brain alike are ever at work for the good of mankind. “I have a real sense of joy in the thought that I am at least in the midst of the full stream of life, not in an eddy or backwater,” he said to me one summer day, as we lay among the ferns of Greeba. He loves to feel that he is striving with the complex forces of these impetuous days of a new century; loves...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hall-caine-the-man-and-the-novelist-57564/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hall-caine-the-man-and-the-novelist-57564/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hall-caine-the-man-and-the-novelist-57564/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hall-caine-the-man-and-the-novelist-57564/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hall-caine-the-man-and-the-novelist-57564/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hall-caine-the-man-and-the-novelist-57564/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hall-caine-the-man-and-the-novelist-57564/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hall-caine-the-man-and-the-novelist-57564/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hall-caine-the-man-and-the-novelist-57564/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hall-caine-the-man-and-the-novelist-57564/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hall-caine-the-man-and-the-novelist-57564/chapters/6/index.md)