Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Mystery
On a wintry Christmas Day a man who has come to rob an antique dealer murders the shopkeeper and, alone with his crime, is visited by a strange, ambiguous stranger who engages him in a probing, philosophical dialogue about conscience, guilt, and the nature of good and evil; as the two debate the man’s past impulses, possible motivations, and the chance for redemption, he is forced to confront his true self and finally makes a fateful decision about confession and punishment.
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- 1885
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