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What if death is a doorway, and love is the bond that carries the soul beyond it?
In The Life Everlasting, Marie Corelli turns romance into an exploration of the soul. She presents love as something deeper than a bond between bodies or families, and imagines a life that reaches beyond death. Her central claim gives the book its stakes: the body ends, but the soul does not.
Corelli also seeks a meeting place for faith and science. Writing amid discoveries in physics and electricity, she argues that religion and science point toward one power rather than opposing truths. This is a romance of ideas as much as feeling, offering warmth and wonder through its vision of a meaningful universe.
What you’ll discover
- A soul beyond death Explore Corelli's conviction that the soul outlasts the body and gives life a larger meaning.
- Love without an ending Discover a romantic vision in which the deepest bonds belong to souls, not bodies alone.
- Faith beside science Follow an attempt to bring religious belief and scientific discovery into one picture of existence.
- Wonder in a changing world Enter a spiritual vision shaped by an age of fast science and changing religious habits.
- Comfort through meaning Encounter the warmth and sense of wonder that draw readers to Corelli's spiritual romances.
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This book suits readers who enjoy Victorian and Edwardian spiritual writing, and anyone curious about how people once mixed romance, religion and science. It may suit you less if you want a fast plot or a modern, skeptical tone.
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- The soul does not die
- Love between souls is eternal
- Science and faith point to one power
- How readers have received her vision
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The Life Everlasting
by Marie Corelli· 1911
A spiritual romance links love with life beyond death.
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The soul does not die
The central claim of the book is that every human being has a soul, and that this soul outlasts the body. Corelli does not treat this as a hope or a comfort alone. She presents it as a fact that careful people can come to know.
For her, death is a change of state, much like passing from one room to another. What we call the end of life is, in her view, a stage in a much longer path. The soul keeps its identity, its memory and its power to love.
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Marie Corelli
1855–1924 · British novelist
Marie Corelli was an English novelist and one of the best-selling authors of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, at her height outselling most of her famous contemporaries. The Sorrows of Satan, her 1895 tale of a devil's bargain in literary London, is often called one of the world's first modern bestsellers.
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What is The Life Everlasting by Marie Corelli about?
It is a spiritual romance about the soul, love that outlasts death and the unseen forces behind life. Corelli uses a love story to argue that existence continues beyond the body and that faith and science agree.
Who was Marie Corelli?
Marie Corelli was an English novelist who died in 1924. She wrote popular romances with religious and mystical themes, including A Romance of Two Worlds, The Sorrows of Satan and Barabbas, and she had a very large readership.
Is The Life Everlasting a true story?
No, it is a work of fiction. It does carry Corelli's own beliefs about the soul, eternal love and the link between science and spirit, and it was written in the early twentieth century.
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