Sorrows of Satan, or: The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (848 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0766101460 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 474 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Flawed masterpiece" according to Jax FL Librarian. Queen Victoria, so I read somewhere, was an avid fan of Marie Corelli, reading her novels as they came out. Sounds like one of those modern potboiler novelists, doesn't it?This book, at least, puts the lie to that.You don't have to be an afficionado of late nineteenth-century British fiction to enjoy the Sorrows of Satan. However, it does help to be a believer, a Christian, b. Jason Hardware said Satan's Sorrow was my joy. A beautifully eloquent book which sadly demonstrates the decline in the expressiveness of modern language. I was gripped from the first chapter onwards and felt empathy and emotion as to the plight of the main characters.The devil is wonderfully described and I feel as if I know him all too well. He passes such sublime insights into theological debate that it sets the mind sp. A Consumate Work of Art Marie Corelli's imaginative conception of the relationship between God, man and the devil is awe-inspiring. Probably, a novel equivalent of John Milton's legendary poem "Paradise Lost", the Sorrows of Satan forces the mind to wander into the world of the supernatural and to reappraise how powerful human choices are and how much they could be affected by our immediate circumst
Throughout her immensely successful career, she was accused of sentimentality and poor taste. Her first book, A Romance of Two Worlds (1886), dealt with psychic experience—a theme in many of her later novels. . Later in life she played an at times controversial role in efforts to preserve historic buildings in Stratford-upon-Avon. Marie Corelli, pseudonym of M
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