Bøger af Marie Corelli

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The Mighty Atom by Marie Corelli is the touching story of a brilliantly clever young boy's upbringing by a father who wants his son to reject all personal and religious ideas. He is a scientist who wants only to proliferate his own ideas, and the havoc it causes as the boy's life seems to fall apart. Corelli writes her story with deep insight into the psychology and the antithesis of the irrational belief in nothingness but atoms. She delineates the mind of the boy's father, his mother and teacher to be grasping at a reality that isn't there, so to speak. The story unfolds in innocent suspense but moves to a climax of shocking revelations.

The Sorrows of Satan was the first modern bestseller and was influential in establishing some of the major trends in twentieth-century bestselling fiction. The setting is London, 1895, and the Devil is on the loose. He is searching for someone morally strong enough to resist temptation, but there seems little chance he will succeed. Britain is all but totally corrupt. The aristocracy is financially and spiritually bankrupt; church leaders no longer believe in God; Victorian idealism has been banished from literature and life; and sexual morality is being undermined by the pernicious doctrines of the "New Woman." Everything and everyone is up for sale, and it takes a special kind of moral courage to resist the Devil's seductions.

Marie Corelli (1855-1924) was a British novelist popular from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I. Corelli's novels sold more copies than the combined sales of popular contemporaries, including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling. Critics derided her work as "the favourite of the common multitude," but she was Queen Victoria's favourite writer.

Marie Corelli (1855-1924) was a British novelist popular from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I. Corelli's novels sold more copies than the combined sales of popular contemporaries, including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling. Critics derided her work as "the favourite of the common multitude," but she was Queen Victoria's favourite writer.

Als einfühlsamer Wegweiser für die geistige Orientierung Suchender im 21. Jahrhundert verdient das Werk Barabbas eine Neubelebung. Es rückt das Ostermysterium für den Leser in erfahrbare Gegenwart. In unvergleichlich bildhafter Sprache erzählt Marie Corelli von der Freilassung des Barabbas und der Kreuzigung Jesu. Barabbas erhebt sich als Sinnbild der zweifelnden und verzweifelten Anteile im Menschen aus den Fangstricken niederen Daseins. Seine Zeit der Läuterung erfüllt sich durch den Opfertod auf Golgatha. Der Eingeweihte Melchior erscheint vor Barabbas an den entscheidenden Kreuzungen von Irrtum und Wahrheit und drängt ihn, den Wandel zu Höherem binnen weniger Tage zu vollziehen. Judith, ein bildschönes verruchtes Weib, der profan denkende Judas und der in kalter Klugheit erstarrte Hohepriester Kaiphas verfestigen sich zu Prüfsteinen seiner Gesinnung. Aus dem materiellen Kerker befreite ihn das Volk, aber wird Barabbas auch von der Knechtschaft seiner groben Leidenschaften loskommen?