The Legacy of Cain (; sometimes translated as Heritage 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 1880s Masoch abandoned the grandiose idea of The Legacy of Cain, although some of the novellas intended for the cycle had been published.