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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.
Who will love it
This book suits readers who love sea voyages, Scottish scenery, ghostly mysteries and love stories that reach across lifetimes. It also welcomes anyone curious about the soul and the will.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Belief and doubt share a voyage
- A strange ship awakens a hope
- Santoris seems both strange and familiar
- Visions suggest a shared past
- Love does not remove her doubts
- The search for certainty brings trials
- True love reaches beyond one lifetime
- The will shapes the embodied life
- Life and love have no end
Who’s who
- The narratorAn unnamed woman who studies the unseen side of life and joins a yachting cruise, she longs for lasting love and proof of the soul.
- Rafel SantorisA youthful looking scholar and owner of the electric yacht Dream, he seeks the woman he believes he has loved through many ages.
- Morton HarlandA rich, cynical writer against religion, he is gravely ill and cannot quite stop wondering about the old college friend he fears.
- Catherine HarlandHis nervous, sheltered daughter lives as an invalid after a broken engagement and clings to her doctor and her fears.
- Dr. BrayleThe family physician is a smooth skeptic who keeps his patients dependent and distrusts the narrator and Santoris.
- AselzionThe Master of a hidden brotherhood on the Biscayan coast, he tests the narrator's will before teaching her his secrets.
- Captain DerrickThe practical captain of the Diana is baffled by a sailing yacht that moves in a calm and wants an honest explanation.
- FrancescaThe narrator's cheerful friend thinks her too fond of abstract thought and expects her to come back to earth.
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The Life Everlasting
by Marie Corelli · 1911
A woman on a millionaire's yacht watches a silent schooner with glowing sails appear from nowhere off Skye.
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Would you accept a holiday on a millionaire's yacht if you knew a silent ship with glowing sails was about to follow it through the Scottish isles? In a hot summer, an unnamed woman does exactly that.
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- 120,100 words
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- 1911by Marie Corelli
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A cruise begins among doubters and invalids
A woman who studies the unseen side of life is invited by Morton Harland to join his yachting cruise. He is a millionaire who has written a cold, clever book against faith. His daughter Catherine is the other reason for the invitation.
Harland says he is tired of the destiny he carved out, and doctors have told him his disease cannot be cured. The narrator dislikes him, yet she accepts. On board the Diana, Catherine lives among medicine bottles, and Dr. Brayle watches like a cat watching two mice.
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Corelli, Marie. The Life Everlasting. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-life-everlasting.
Corelli, M. (2026). The life everlasting. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-life-everlasting (Original work published 1911)
Corelli, Marie. The Life Everlasting. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-life-everlasting.
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What is The Life Everlasting about?
It follows a woman on a yachting cruise off Scotland who meets Rafel Santoris, owner of an electric sailing yacht. He claims they have loved each other across many lives, and she goes to a hidden brotherhood to test the claim.
Who is Rafel Santoris in The Life Everlasting?
Santoris is a former Oxford acquaintance of Morton Harland who looks young for his years. He owns the yacht Dream, studies the laws of the soul, and says life and love cannot end.
What does the Cross and Star mean in the book?
It is the golden symbol of Aselzion's brotherhood, a Cross set on a seven pointed Star. It blazes in the chapel and also appears in the narrator's cabin, and it stands for the light that draws the soul.
The author
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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