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Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections include a linked table of contents.Marie Corelli was a British writer during the Victorian era. Corelli was one of the most widely read authors in her lifetime and her books are considered to be part of the New Age religion. This collection includes the following:A Romance of Two Wo...

On the surface the plot follows the story of a penniless, starving author called Geoffrey Tempest. So poor that he is behind on his rent and can barely afford light in his room, he receives three letters. The first is from a friend in Australia who has made his fortune and offers to introduce him to a good friend who might be able to lift him from poverty. The second is a note from a solicitor detailing that he has inherited a fortune from a deceased relative. The third is a letter of intr...

14 Complete Works of Marie CorelliA Romance of Two WorldsArdathGod's Good ManInnocentStories By English Authors: LondonTemporal PowerThe Life EverlastingThe Master-ChristianThe Secret PowerThe Sorrows of SatanThe Treasure of HeavenThelmaVendettaZiska

A young musician, ill and exhausted, is taken up by a Chaldean mystic in Paris who explains that electricity is the medium of the soul, and offers a demonstration. Corelli outsold Wells, Kipling and Conan Doyle combined and was Queen Victoria's favourite; this was her first book, in 1886, and the electric theology in it was taken perfectly seriously by a great many intelligent readers.

A scientist in the Egyptian desert has found the force behind matter itself, and a woman who understands it better than he does intends to decide what is done with it. Corelli outsold Wells, Kipling and Conan Doyle combined and was Queen Victoria's favourite; she wrote this in 1921, with the war just over, and the argument — that we will be given the power to destroy ourselves before we are fit for it — was not a common one then.

A woman who remembers a life five thousand years ago meets, on a yacht in the Hebrides, the man she loved then — and the book explains, at length and in earnest, the electric theology behind it. Corelli outsold Wells, Kipling and Conan Doyle combined and was Queen Victoria's favourite; this 1911 novel is the sequel to her first, and she insisted in the preface that every word of the doctrine was true.

The Spine-Chilling Tales for Halloween surveys the Gothic imagination from its Romantic origins to the weird fiction of the early twentieth century. Its stories range from graveyard reverie, spectral visitation, and ancestral curse to psychological terror, scientific transgression, maritime dread, and cosmic horror. Alongside familiar vampire, phantom, and doubles narratives, the volume offers unsettling excursions into decaying houses, forbidden manuscripts, and malign landscapes, making ...

The novel "The Sorrow of Satan" became a hit of its time. Within a couple of months of its release in 1895, tens of thousands of copies had been sold, and the book's popularity surpassed even Stoker's Dracula. Gifted but poor writer Jeffrey Tempest unexpectedly receives a huge inheritance and an influential patron — the mysterious Prince Lucio Rimanets. Money, fame, power—everything is in Jeffrey's hands. But with success comes something else: he gradually loses his talent, and most import...

Innocence Once Lost gathers religious classics around the fraught passage from moral simplicity to knowledge, sin, doubt, repentance, and grace. Its capacious selection moves among epic vision, allegory, parable, realist fiction, philosophical provocation, devotional reflection, satire, and romance, placing medieval and modern religious imaginations in productive tension. Pilgrimage narratives, infernal journeys, conversion dramas, and fables of social conscience stand out as recurring for...

DEEP, DARK & UNSETTLING gathers more than a century of Gothic experimentation into a capacious archive of terror, wonder, and psychological disturbance. Its contents range from foundational castle romances, spectral ballads, and Faustian tales to detective mysteries, decadent fantasies, imperial nightmares, and proto-science-fictional horrors. Recurring images—ruined houses, forbidden manuscripts, doubles, revenants, persecuted heroines, and corrupted inheritances—demonstrate how Gothic wr...

The Sorrows of Satan is an 1895 faustian novel by Marie Corelli. It is widely regarded as one of the world's first bestsellers, partly due to an upheaval in the system British libraries used to purchase their books and partly due to its popular appeal. Roundly condemned by critics for Corelli's moralistic and prosaic style it nonetheless had strong supporters in Oscar Wilde and various members of royalty. Widely ignored in literary circles, it is increasingly regarded as an influential fin...