Title: Kane & Abel
First published: 1979
Description: Kane and Abel is a 1979 novel by British author Jeffrey Archer. Released in the United Kingdom in 1979 and in the United States in February 1980, the book was an international success. It reached No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list. The sequel to Kane and Abel is The Prodigal Daughter, in which Florentyna Kane is the protagonist.

Kane & Abel is among the top 100 best-selling books in the world, with a similar number of copies sold as To Kill a Mockingbird and Gone with the Wind.

In 2003, Kane and Abel was listed at number 96 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.


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Contains:
[Kane & Abel: 1/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17850605W/Kane_Abel._1_2)

Contained in:
[Kane & Abel / Sons of Fortune](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16059135W/Kane_Abel_Sons_of_Fortune)
[Novels (Kane & Abel / Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less / Prodigal Daughter) ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1807061W)
[Kane and Abel / The Prodigal Daughter / Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less / A Quiver Full of Arrows
](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL23860505W)
Subjects: Titanic, Poles, Boston Brahmins, Historical fiction, hotelkeepers, Peasants, Capitalists and financiers, Fiction, Peasantry, Fiction, sagas, Fiction, thrillers, Large type books, Fiction, thrillers, general, Fiction, general
Places: Poland, United States, St. Paul's School, Harvard University, Siberia, Turkey, Middle East, Hotel Plaza, Columbia University, Richmond
People: William Lowell Kane, Abel Rosnovski, Florentyna Rosnovski, Virginia Kane, Lucy Kane, Richard Kane, Henry Osborne, John Moors Cabot, Mathew Lester, Vitorio Tossana, Władek Koskiewicz, David Maxton, George Novak, Zaphia Novak, Baron Rosnovski, Florentyna Władek
Time periods: 18 April 1906, Great Depression, World War II