The Murder Of Delicia, Marie Corelli
The Murder Of Delicia, Marie Corelli
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The Murder Of Delicia
A true tale of pure love sullied by a cad

Author: Marie Corelli

Narrator: Charles Featherstone

Unabridged: 5 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/30/2025


Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ron on February 03, 2008

Delicia was murdered, but no court would ever get the case. She was murdered by the indiscretions of her husband, from the wounds they caused her, and due to her inability to go on with any lustre and feeling of triumph of love in her heart. So one might describe the general theme of "The Murder of......more

Goodreads review by Jim on July 10, 2024

Often this book had me howling with laughter, which I’m sure was not the author’s intent. As some of you may know, I have a strange fascination for Marie Corelli, late-Victorian England’s best-selling author, whose novels on religion and the supernatural are totally ridiculous, mass market perversio......more