Download or read book The Sorrows of Satan Classic Edition (Illustrated) written by Marie Corelli and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sorrows of Satan is an 1895 Faustian novel by Marie Corelli. It is widely regarded as one of the world's first best-sellers - partly due to an upheaval in the system British libraries used to purchase their books[citation needed], and partly due to its popular appeal. Roundly condemned by contemporary literary critics for Corelli's moralistic and prosaic style, [1] it nonetheless had strong supporters, including Oscar Wilde and various members of royalty