Audiobooks by Marie Corelli

Cameos: The Essential Introduction to Bestselling Victorian Tales of Gothic Passion, Feminist Reveng

"At the height of her fame—outselling Dickens, Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells combined—Marie Corelli crafted these mesmerizing tales that blend forbidden passion with gothic suspense. From ghostly brides seeking vengeance to artists consumed by obsession, each story pulses with the dark romanticism that made Corelli Victorian Britain's most beloved storyteller. Step into the gaslit world of Victorian Britain's most beloved storyteller with this haunting collection that masterfully blends forbidden passion and gothic suspense in mesmerizing tales that capture the Victorian imagination at its most decadent and dramatic. From ghostly brides seeking vengeance to artists driven mad by obsession, each story pulses with the dark romanticism that made Corelli the defining voice of her era. These pages whisper of dying mothers making supernatural bargains, courtesans watching their beauty fade like withering roses, and spectral visitations that reveal the hidden torment of the human heart. Corelli's lush, atmospheric prose transports readers to ballrooms thick with intrigue, lonely country estates shrouded in mystery, and Parisian theaters where love and madness perform their eternal duet. Her heroines—passionate, complex, and often tragic—embody the struggle between society's rigid expectations and the wild yearnings of the soul. This collection offers the ideal introduction to Corelli's world, where every love story carries the shadow of the grave, and every happy ending comes tinged with melancholy. Perfect for devotees of Victorian gothic romance, these stories stand beside the Brontës windswept intensity, Le Fanu's tales of the supernatural, and the dark romanticism of Dracula and Jane Eyre. Discover why millions of Victorian readers cherished these tales—and why modern audiences continue to fall under their spell."

Marie Corelli (Author), Charles Featherstone (Narrator)

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The Love Of Long Ago & Other Stories: Beautiful, thoughful and spiritual tales from the Victorian er

"A poignant exploration of love, loss, and the passage of time, imbued with a melancholic beauty that mirrors the author’s own reckoning with mortality and the changing tides of literature. This collection of short stories was released just before Corelli’s death, and is unlike any of her other tales. Corelli was the bestselling queen of Victorian romantic fiction, beloved by the public and Queen Victoria herself… but the Great War (WWI) war changed everyone, Corelli included. Gone are the grand romances filled with passion and heartache. In their place are war-torn lives, dangerous naivety, espionage, and the savage gladness that many women felt at their husbands being called to the front. Written in a fractured post-war society, the tales weave together the threads of a bygone era—a time of grand passions and unshakable ideals—with the stark realities of a modern world grappling with disillusionment and grief. Corelli’s signature lyrical prose takes on a deeper, more introspective tone, as her characters navigate the fragile boundaries between memory and reality, hope and despair. Each tale explores an irresolvable conflict, an impossible situation in which one or both players are incapable of reaching across the divide that seperates them. We find a miner in America, upbraiding a missionary for his naivety; a haunting tune that leads the listener across windswept moors on a barren Scottish island; a wealthy American businesswoman, scorning the patriarchy of an English gent; and a monk, hiding an act of shame that fills his every waking moment, desperately trying to find someone to blame other than himself. The Love of Long Ago is a bittersweet farewell from a literary icon, offering readers a glimpse into the soul of an artist who witnessed the end of an era and the dawn of a new, uncertain age. A timeless meditation on love’s enduring power, this novel is both a tribute to the past and a poignant reflection on the fleeting nature of life itself."

Marie Corelli (Author), Charles Featherstone (Narrator)

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The Murder Of Delicia: A true tale of pure love sullied by a cad

"A wealthy novelist, loved by the public and derided by the fools of 'high society'. A husband, so beloved that she is blind to who he truly is. A penniless lordling, he scorns her work and squanders her fortune on gambling, drinking, and adultery. A loyal and loving suitor, rejected by Delicia's delusionary love for her husband. The revelation. In the blink of an eye, love turns to hate. A marriage now made in hell, impossible to escape, impossible to stay in. A heartbreaking and passionate tale of true love's blindness and destruction by the bestselling author of the victorian era, who romances were beloved of figures as diverse as Gladstone, Churchill, and Queen Victoria herself. Here, she explores the snotty awfulness of those that claim 'breeding' and 'aristocracy', and the weight placed upon women who dare to be brilliant, or to love truly and honourably in a world filled with cads. A searing story of betrayal and loss, all based on events known to the author."

Marie Corelli (Author), Charles Featherstone (Narrator)

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The Devil's Motor

"A thrilling tale of the Devil's final ride between the darkness and dawn, watching as mankind falls victim to the curse of progress and speed, rejecting all peace and silence, all reflection and godliness. As he goes, he gathers phantoms and monsters, hell-bound victims and dark shadows, all the while telling the natural world to rejoice, for it will soon be free of the curse of Man. Written in 1910, this Christian tome is as relevant today as it was a century ago, as people fall victim to the next and fastest thing, falling away from God in the process. The devil's visceral delight in modernity is poetic and chilling 'Come, ye pretenders to holiness—ye thieves of virtue, who give ‘charity’ to the poor with the right hand, and cheat your neighbour with the left! Come, all ye morphia-fed vampires and slaves to poison!—grasp at my wheels and cling!” Corelli lived in the spaces between. Even her birth is still shrouded in mystery, and was the grandest Romance and Christian writer of her era. She outsold Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling put together. Critics hated her, calling her 'the favourite of the common multitude', and she hated them in return. A favourite of Winston Churchill, Queen Victoria and William Gladstone. She was also a lesbian, with a her 'companion' of 40 years to whom she left her entire estate and is buried alongside her in a couples grave. Her friends included Mark Twain, Ouida, the Empress Frederick of Germany, and Alfred Tennyson, while her writing tried to reconcile Christianity with reincarnation and astral projection. 'a woman of deplorable talent who imagined that she was a genius, and was accepted as a genius by a public to whose commonplace sentimentalities and prejudices she gave a glamorous setting.' - Grant Allen 'the imagination of a Poe with the style of an Ouida and the mentality of a nursemaid.' -James Agate"

Marie Corelli (Author), Charles Featherstone (Narrator)

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Angel's Wickedness

"'a woman of deplorable talent who imagined that she was a genius, and was accepted as a genius by a public to whose commonplace sentimentalities and prejudices she gave a glamorous setting.' - Grant Allen 'the imagination of a Poe with the style of an Ouida and the mentality of a nursemaid.' -James Agate 'I hate God!' Said Angel. And having made this un-angel-like statement, she folded her short arms across her breast and surveyed her horrified audience defiantly. So begins a tale of a poor child's expulsion from Sunday school for the cruelties of a God who would allow her parents to die, and her life to be one of unending misery. A deceptively short work, Angel's Wickedness contrasts the God of Vengeance with the God of Love. It is either a statement of absolute faith in the greater plan, or a Miltonian subversion of it. Angel's story is the perfect entry to the surprisingly complex work of the writer who dominated the Victorian era and early 20th century, . Corelli lived in the spaces between. Even her birth is still shrouded in mystery, and was the grandest Romance and Christian writer of her era. She outsold Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling put together. Critics hated her, calling her 'the favourite of the common multitude', and she hated them in return. A favourite of Winston Churchill, Queen Victoria and William Gladstone. She was also a lesbian, with a her 'companion' of 40 years to whom she left her entire estate and is buried alongside her in a couples grave. Her friends included Mark Twain, Ouida, the Empress Frederick of Germany, and Alfred Tennyson, while her writing tried to reconcile Christianity with reincarnation and astral projection."

Marie Corelli (Author), Charles Featherstone (Narrator)

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The Strange Visitation of Josiah McNasson: A Ghost Story: A terrifying take on A Christmas Carol fro

"'I exhort therefore, that intercessions be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.' - 1 Timothy 2 This verse is the center of this fascinating, rip-roaring, family friendly, deeply Christian tale. A terrifying spin on Dickens' A Christmas Carol commissioned for the 1904 Special Christmas Issue of The Strand, it tells of Josiah McNason, “A case of a man gone wrong! A case of a human creature who has a stone in the place where his heart ought to be!—a hard, heavy stone, without a pulse of love or kindness in it! Sir Slasher believes it’s cancer. But if it is, they’ll never find it, McNason! No!—your cancer’s on the mind!” The goblin who announces this takes him on a terrifying voyage, in which he sees his fate as a goblin, watches a goblin preacher exhorting his congregation of fallen souls, travels to the bedside of a dying man he has refused to save, watches an atheist preacher spinning a newfangled 'faith' that ignores Christ's presence in the heart of Westminster Abbey, and faces the horrors of a fate that cares as little for him as he does for his fellow man. Paranormal and gothic, Christian and anti-church, fun and thoughtful, filled with hideous darkness and angelic light, this book is perfect for anyone looking for victorian-era penny dreadful drama and adventure with a solidly Christian spin. Corelli outsold AC Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Kipling combined. Critics hated her, calling her 'the favourite of the common multitude', and she hated them in return. A favourite of Churchill, Queen Victoria and Gladstone, her friends included Mark Twain, Ouida, the Empress Frederick of Germany, and Tennyson. She was described as 'a woman of deplorable talent who imagined that she was a genius, and was accepted as a genius by a public to whose commonplace sentimentalities and prejudices she gave a glamorous setting."

Marie Corelli (Author), Charles Featherstone (Narrator)

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Marie Corelli's Collected Poems

"Marie Corelli is best known as a novelist, but was always a poet at heart, composing on her strongest passions, whether for love, nature, God, or country. This volume collects poems from across her bestselling books and across her career, curated by Brenda Vyver, her her 'companion' of 40 years, who she left everything to when she died, and who is buried alongside her in a twin grave. It is perhaps worth noting that Brenda drove much of Corelli's work, which ran heavy to erotic descriptions of women. Corelli was the Victorian romance author who outsold Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling put together. Despite critics labelling her as 'as 'the favourite of the common multitude', she was a favourite of Winston Churchill, Queen Victoria and William Gladstone. She was the only author invited to the coronation of Edward VII, and her friends included Mark Twain, Ouida, the Empress Frederick of Germany, and Alfred Tennyson. Her often darkly romantic works tried to reconcile Christianity with mystical ideas such as reincarnation and astral projection. A true character, Corelli claimed that she had warned the finders of the tomb of Tutankhamun about the 'dire punishment' likely to occur to those who rifle Egyptian tombs, claiming to cite an ancient book that indicated that poisons had been left after burials. She . She was associated at some point with the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis; a mystical Rosicrucian group, and her books were a part of the foundation of today's corpus of esoteric philosophy. 'a woman of deplorable talent who imagined that she was a genius, and was accepted as a genius by a public to whose commonplace sentimentalities and prejudices she gave a glamorous setting.' - Grant Allen 'the imagination of a Poe with the style of an Ouida and the mentality of a nursemaid.' -James Agate"

Marie Corelli (Author), Charles Featherstone (Narrator)

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Jane: A Social Incident: a 57-year old country maid gains a fortune and debuts in high society

"’Jane ’came out’ at fifty-seven and everybody knew it.’ So begins this heartwarming tale of a courteous country maid who comes into a vast inheritance, and uses it to travel into high society in London. along the way, she encounters the snobs of the society set, royalty entirely without regality, and a whole host of characters that make clear just how much better off she is away from the glitz and glamour. Written in 1897, this tale from Marie Corelli is a short and adorably sweet take of 'a sweet-faced, placid-faced lady of the purely old-fashioned type,' inherits a fortune at 57 and discovers that the fashionable and high society world is composed of 'the Great of Purse and not the Great of Heart'. Corelli was the the first bestselling novelist in a modern sense, dominating the scene from her debut in 1867 and largely forgotten because she wrote her social commentary, wit and style into romances that were beloved of Queen Victoria and Churchill, among many others."

Marie Corelli (Author), Charles Featherstone (Narrator)

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Ziska: The Problem Of A Wicked Soul: A supernatural tale of reincarnation, seduction, and revenge.

"One of the first bestsellers in history. A famous French painter, love-struck Scotsman, and mysterious Egyptian princess form a love triangle replete with mystery, tourists, hieroglyphs, revenge, and day trips to the pyramids, leading to an inevitable dark ending... Marie Corelli, the Victorian novelist beloved of Gladstone, Churchill and Victoria herself, topped the bestseller charts through her whole career. This tale of romance, mystery, and foolish tourism was published in 1897, the same year in which Bram Stoker wrote Dracula. In her inimitable style, she weaves together dark romance, the paranormal, savage social commentary, ridiculous but entirely believable characters, and more in an energetic ride through the 'Society Set' as they take the season in Cairo. The world most famous French painter, introduced in a sashing Bedouin chief's outfit... a noble Scots lord, and his gentle sister, who the painter threw aside... a professor who sees beyond the veil of illusion to the real, reincarnating, souls of people... a happy mutton-dressed-as-lamb, pretending to be decades younger and sprightlier than when her husband lived... a newspaper proprietor and his desperately status-seeking wife and 'girls'... together, they must discover the secrets of the Princess Ziska, who seems to know far more than any other about the ancient days of Egypt, especially of the warrior king Araxes and his ill-fated harm-dancer, Ziska-Charmazel. A tale of love, passion, revenge, reincarnation and a superbly written cast of characters that will bring constant laughs, reflections and shivers."

Marie Corelli (Author), Charles Featherstone (Narrator)

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The Sorrows of Satan (Unabridged)

"This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. London, gaslight flickers on cobblestone streets. A world teetering between faith and doubt. Enter Geoffrey Tempest, a starving writer on the brink of despair. Then, a stroke of luck - a sudden inheritance and a charming new friend, Prince Lucio Rimanez. But is Lucio all he seems? As Geoffrey rockets through high society, wealth and fame become his cage. Whispers turn to accusations - is Prince Rimanez the devil himself, tempting Geoffrey's soul? Prepare to be seduced by a tale of ambition, temptation, and the ultimate battle between good and evil. Will Geoffrey find redemption, or succumb to The Sorrows of Satan?"

Marie Corelli (Author), Digital Voice Madison G (Narrator)

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A Romance of Two Worlds

"“No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.” Known as the queen of bestsellers, Corelli’s career began with A Romance of Two Worlds, which addressed the contemporary debate between creationism and evolution. The debut novel even developed a cult following of its own, garnering a group of devotees to her passage regarding “The Electric Principle of Christianity” that they believed was born of her own supernatural experiences (a belief from which she did not try to dissuade them). In A Romance of Two Worlds, a young musician in England who has been suffering from depression and a nervous ailment goes on holiday in order to recuperate. While abroad, she meets an Italian artist, Cellini, who gives her a special draught for relaxation. The young woman has divine visions under the influence of the strange potion which she longs to have again. Cellini takes her to Dr. Casimir, also known as Heliobas, for further treatment of her nervous disposition. The doctor describes himself as an “electric physician,” and with his help she is able to experience more visions, as well as some relief from her anxiety. With each vision she learns more about religion and the destiny of mankind, but it is not enough. She is always yearning to learn more, to be closer to the divine."

Marie Corelli (Author), Gabrielle De Cuir (Narrator)

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Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten

"“I, who write this, am a dead man. Dead legally—dead by absolute proofs—dead and buried! Ask for me in my native city and they will tell you I was one of the victims of the cholera that ravaged Naples in 1884, and that my mortal remains lie moldering in the funeral vault of my ancestors. Yet—I live! … I, Fabio Romani, lately deceased, am about to chronicle the events of one short year …” In the cholera-ridden Naples of 1884, Fabio Romani is prematurely buried and awakes to find himself in a coffin. After managing to free himself, Fabio rushes home to reassure his wife and child. While he expected to find his family deep in mourning, he instead discovers that his wife has been unfaithful to him and is having an affair with his best friend. Utilizing a disguise and adopting a new identity, Fabio slowly works his way back into the trust, and home, of those who betrayed him, culminating in a frightful finale of revenge."

Marie Corelli (Author), Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)

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