The Legacy of Cain Annotated

The Legacy of Cain is an unfinished cycle of novellas by the 19th century Austrian author Leopold von Sacher Masoch. His original plan was to group various novellas into 6 volumes, each of which was titled according to its central theme; those are Love, Property, State, War, Work and Death. Only the first two volumes, Love 1870 and Property 1877, were completed. By the middle of the 1880s, Masoch abandoned the grandiose idea of The Legacy of Cain, although some of the novellas intended for the cycle had been published.