Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul
Marie Corelli
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Cairo, the season: a beautiful woman nobody knows appears at the hotels, a French painter is destroyed by her, and it emerges that she herself is an Egyptian, dead for thousands of years, come back for the man who killed her. Corelli outsold Wells, Kipling and Conan Doyle combined and was Queen Victoria's favourite; this 1897 novel is her revenge story, and the tourists in it are drawn with real contempt. Fifty-five plates, from Goya to Redon, gather the haunted, mocking faces and strange still lifes that shadow this tale of a woman returning from the dead.
Cairo, the season: a beautiful woman nobody knows appears at the hotels, a French painter is destroyed by her, and it emerges that she herself is an Egyptian, dead for thousands of years, come back for the man who killed her. Corelli outsold Wells, Kipling and Conan Doyle combined and was Queen V...
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Marie Corelli (1855-1924) was the pen name of Mary Mackay, an English novelist born in London and raised as the ward of the poet Charles Mackay. She was the best-selling novelist of her generation, read by Queen Victoria and Gladstone and mocked by the critics throughout. Her works include A Romance of Two Worlds, Vendetta, The Sorrows of Satan, and The Devil's Motor.
Marie Corelli (1855-1924) was the pen name of Mary Mackay, an English novelist born in London and raised as the ward of the poet Charles Mackay. She was the best-selling novelist of her generation, read by Queen Victoria and Gladstone and mocked by the critics throughout. Her works include A Roma...
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