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The narrator, Geoffrey Tempest, rises from desperate poverty to sudden wealth through the patronage of a charismatic, enigmatic benefactor who entangles him in moral and social temptations. As he moves into high society and pursues love and literary success, he observes hypocrisy, decadence, and spiritual conflict among the affluent while confronting choices that test his integrity. The narrative combines melodrama, social commentary, and supernatural suggestion to probe the corrosive effects of greed, vanity, and compromised conscience, tracing how ambition and desire alter relationships and inner life and asking whether true redemption remains attainable after moral compromise.

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Title: The Sorrows of Satan

Author: Marie Corelli

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Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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[p i]
THE SORROWS OF SATAN

OR

THE STRANGE EXPERIENCE OF ONE
GEOFFREY TEMPEST, MILLIONAIRE

A ROMANCE


BY
MARIE CORELLI


METHUEN & CO. LTD., LONDON
36 Essex Street W.C.

[p ii]
First Published November 1895
Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth Editions 1895
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Fortieth and Forty-first Editions 1899
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Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Editions 1902
Forty-seventh Edition 1903
Forty-eighth Edition 1904
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Fifty-fourth Edition 1908
Fifty-fifth Edition 1909
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Sixtieth Edition 1916
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Sixty-fifth Edition (Cheap Edition) 1920
Sixty-sixth Edition        "     " 1922
Sixty-seventh Edition    "     " 1931
Sixty-eighth Edition      "     " 1936
Reprinted, 1952

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