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... Do you feel ready for Vendetta .... no? So brace yourself, because in this month of March comes a work that celebrates the madness, the horror and human decadence maximum stage of degeneration.



Title: Vendetta
Author: Marie Corelli or Mary Mackay
Publisher: Gargoyle
Pages: 346

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Imagine that your relatives and friends will believe died of cholera.

of being buried alive and waking up in your coffin. Now, imagine the desperate attempt to trace the light from the dark depths of your grave only to discover something even more 'terrible ... Well, that's' just the beginning of the Victorian horror masterpiece Marie Corelli, Revenge! Realizing what happened, and discovered a terrible truth ', Count Fabio Romani decides to put in his revenge. Unrecognizable, aged and disfigured by cholera, the count assumes a new identity 'and finds a way to reintegrate into society' of Naples, which is in line 'in disguise the relationship with the wife who believes him dead. All this to put into practice his perverse, diabolical plan nemesis.

Marie Corelli, queen of the late Gothic-Victorian age.

The author

Born with the given name of Mary Mackay, Corelli was the illegitimate daughter of Charles Mackay, the famous journalist, poet and author of Scottish songs, and Mary Elizabeth Mills, probably his housekeeper, whom her father married her when she was ten, but who knew how to be his mother after his father's death. In 1866 she was sent to boarding school in Paris for his education and he returned four years later.

When he reached the age of thirty years changed its name to Corelli that became his stage name when he began as a musician in the art world, claiming to be the daughter of an Italian count and have twenty years. After leaving the music, began to write her first published story in 1886 called A Romance of Two Worlds. Although his works would become very popular, were received very harshly by the literary criticism of the time because of excessive sentimentality and exaggerated to a certain taste for the melodramatic. Despite what was known publicly praised the players, as some members of the British royal family and Winston and Randolph Churchill.