The Sorrows of Satan: Or the Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire, A Romance (Oxford Popular Fiction) - Softcover

Corelli, Marie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192832204 ISBN 13: 9780192832207

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1996

Synopsis

The Sorrows of Satan was one of the first modern bestsellers 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Marie Corelli, pen-name of Mary Mackay 1855-1924
Peter Keating is currently a freelance writer. He was a Reader in English Literature at Edinburgh University and he lives in Edinburgh.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0192832204
• ISBN 13: 9780192832207
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416