Free Opinions: Freely Expressed on Certain Places of Modern Social Life and Conduct by Marie Corelli (PT236)

Published 1905: First Edition / Hardcover / Good Condition

Original blue embossed cloth with gilt titles on the cover and spine. 353 + very clean and bright slightly age-toned pages, mild speckled foxing on the edges. Boards are rubbed, marked and faded with time, frayed along the spine edges and bumped on the corners and spine tips consistent with age but remain firm and intact. Scarce! (PT236)

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Free Opinions, Freely Expressed on Certain Phases of Modern Social Life and Conduct is a 1905 collection of critical essays by bestselling Victorian and Edwardian author Marie Corelli. The book offers a sharp, conservative critique of early 20th-century culture, morality, and media.

Marie Corelli can be considered the best-selling author of the Victorian era. She may even be considered the first ever best-seller. She sold a greater number of books than both Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling put together. She was so renowned that calendars were sold with citations from her books, and a series of postcards representing her could be purchased by her devoted readership. Everybody read Corelli's books, from the most basic shopgirl to Oscar Wilde and Queen Victoria herself. A Romance of Two Worlds, her first book, was distributed in 1886, and it turned her into a best-selling author in England and one of the favourites of Queen Victoria herself, who ended up ordering the complete collection of Marie's books. Despite the severe criticism, her books often managed to break sales records. Marie was the only writer asked to attend the coronation of Edward VII. Marie Corelli's books are inspired, magical, and philosophical. She volunteered to cure the universe's social ills. Among her best works are Barabbas (1893), Thelma (1887), The Expert Christian (1900), Wormwood (1890), The Mystery Power (1921), The Distresses of Satan (1895), The Existence Never-ending (1911), and Transient Power (1902). After World War I, her books were viewed as obsolete, and both interest and sales declined. She passed away in 1924. Google Books.