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Samenvatting van Een romance van twee werelden
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A sleepless musician on the Riviera meets a painter whose presence calms her and dreams of a mysterious name.
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Samenvatting: 8 min leestijd
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- 91.900 woorden
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- Gemiddeld longer sentences, everyday words
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- 1886by Marie Corelli
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Een romance van twee werelden in short
A Romance of Two Worlds follows one young woman through a cure, a friendship and a journey. She begins as a worn out musician and ends as a student of a strange science, which says every person carries an electric spark of the soul and the universe is held in a ring of light and love. Along the way you meet a painter who heals by presence, a healer who needs no fee, a radiant sister, and a prince who learns that wanting is not the same as loving.
What Een romance van twee werelden is about
A young musician cannot sleep, cannot work and cannot bear music, the one thing she loves. Her doctor sends her to the Riviera, and there a calm Italian painter looks at her once and her nerves go quiet. How does a stranger do that, and what is in the glass of water he snatches from her hand?
A Romance of Two Worlds is the first novel of Marie Corelli, who published it in the 1880s. She tells it in the first person and says plainly in her prologue that she does not expect to be believed. The book gives the listener a cure, a friendship, a love never fulfilled, a voyage among the planets and a theory of Christianity built on electricity.
Voor wie is het?. You will enjoy this book if you like Victorian romances with a touch of the marvelous, stories of healing and friendship, and bold ideas about science and faith.
The story in 10 parts
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A sleepless musician travels south to Cannes
The story opens in a London winter. The narrator, a young musician, suffers from months of insomnia, dread and exhaustion. Even music, her one passion, wearies her, and her doctor fails to help.
He sends her to the Riviera with two American friends, Colonel Everard and his quick, fashionable wife Amy. They settle in a hotel in Cannes, among roses and orange trees, but her old misery creeps back after a few days of false cheer.
At the same hotel lives Raffaello Cellini, a young Italian painter whose colors seem almost too rich to be true. When he passes her in the garden and only smiles and bows, her agitation falls away, and she cannot say why. Then he asks to paint her portrait, and she agrees.
A cure that arrives through a stranger's glance is the first hint that the book's world is wider than it looks.
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A strange drink brings three dreams and a name
On the day of the first sitting, the narrator arrives alone and meets a huge Newfoundland dog named Leo.
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A dance, a garden and Cellini's own story
That night Madame Didier holds a dance at the hotel.
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The Hotel Mars opens its door to her
In Paris the narrator finds winter at its worst.
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Zara, Prince Ivan and the dinner table
On her second visit the narrator meets Zara, the sister of Heliobas.
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Music from the air and a lover's rage
Within a week the narrator is healthy, cheerful and practicing on the piano.
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Lifted above the earth to see the spheres
On the appointed day, Heliobas asks one favor in return for her cure.
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The electric creed turns faith into a science
Heliobas gives the narrator a written statement of his beliefs, and she prints it in the book.
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Fame, love and the other half of the soul
A second theme is the contrast between worldly success and a soul's growth.
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A narrator who tells it as plain experience
The book is told in the first person, with the narrator as both witness and test subject.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- The narrator A young half Italian musician and improviser who arrives ill and doubtful and wants health, art and proof that faith is true.
- Heliobas A calm Chaldean count who heals without fees, studies human electricity and offers the narrator a path to knowledge.
- Zara His sister, a sculptor of uncommon beauty and serenity who shares a bond with a spirit beyond earthly life.
- Raffaello Cellini A gifted Italian painter, once saved from despair by Heliobas, who sends the narrator toward the same help.
- Prince Ivan Petroffsky A rich, cheerful Russian nobleman who loves Zara hopelessly and doubts the science of his friend Heliobas.
- Amy Everard The narrator's American friend, light hearted and fond of clothes, who cannot follow her into spiritual matters.
- Azul A radiant spirit and guide who leads the narrator through the heavens and stands close to the heart of Heliobas.
- Leo A great Newfoundland dog who carries messages and fetches whatever Heliobas wills him to bring.
How it ends (spoiler)
Zara is struck dead by lightning on a balcony while guests listen to a song, just as she had quietly prepared for. Her spirit appears to the narrator and begs her to save her brother. The narrator stops Heliobas from killing Prince Ivan in a duel by reminding him of Azul, and the men are reconciled. Zara's unfinished statue is smashed, as she asked. The narrator keeps the glowing jewel and leaves for England, while Heliobas goes on to Egypt.
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What is A Romance of Two Worlds about?
It tells of a sick young musician who is cured by a healer named Heliobas, then lifted in a vision through the planets to a central sphere of light. The book blends a social story with a theory that the soul is electric.
Who is Heliobas in the book?
Heliobas is a Chaldean count living in Paris who claims to have trained the electric force in his own body. He heals without fees, directs the narrator's cure and teaches her the science of the soul.
What does the electric creed in the novel mean?
It is Heliobas's written view that God is pure radiant light, that each person carries an electric spark of soul, and that Christ opened a line of communication between earth and heaven like a cable across the sea.
Is A Romance of Two Worlds a true story?
No, it is a novel by Marie Corelli, first published in the 1880s. She calls it an experience in the first person, but the characters and events are invented, and she says plainly that she cannot expect belief.
Is A Romance of Two Worlds easy to read?
The narrator speaks in a lively, direct voice, and the book moves through short scenes of dinners, dances, dreams and vivid visions. Its conversations about faith, music and love make the ideas easy to follow.
Verwijs naar deze uitgave
Corelli, Marie. A Romance of Two Worlds. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/a-romance-of-two-worlds.
Corelli, M. (2026). A romance of two worlds. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/a-romance-of-two-worlds (Original work published 1886)
Corelli, Marie. A Romance of Two Worlds. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/a-romance-of-two-worlds.
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