Thelma
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Summary
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in late Victorian popular fiction and constructions of female characters
- Readers who enjoy Nordic atmospheres of ice, snow, and fjords and legendary love stories
- Scholars or students studying late nineteenth-century British bestselling literature and cultural taste
- Advanced readers seeking to broaden their English fiction reading and able to accept lengthy exposition
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer modern, concise narration and fast-paced plots
- Readers impatient with authorial commentary and intense lyrical description
- Researchers expecting strict realism or deep social critique
Reading tips
- Read the first few chapters to get a feel for Corelli's narrative tone before deciding whether to adjust your reading speed; do not force yourself to parse every sentence closely.
- Compare Thelma's emotional choices with those of other female characters in the book, and observe how the author arranges women's fates.
- Read alongside background on the development of late Victorian popular fiction to understand why it sold well and its stylistic features.
- Skim long passages of commentary and return to them after finishing the main plot; this can reduce the chance of giving up midway.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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About the author
Marie Corelli (1855–1924) was a British popular novelist active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; her real name and biographical details remain difficult to establish because public sources are limited. The library holds fourteen of her works, including A Romance of Two Worlds, The Sorrows of Satan, Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self, The Secret Power, Thelma, Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul, The Treasure of Heaven, and Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact. Her fiction often uses romance as a framework while incorporating mysticism, the supernatural, religious fantasy, and moral allegory, with elaborate plotting and bold imagination. She was widely read in the late Victorian period, and her work had some influence on popular fantasy fiction, though critical assessments of her writing have long been mixed.
