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Aeneas Press edition 20th Century First published 1911

The Life Everlasting

A Reality of Romance

by Marie Corelli 1855–1924

The book, and the century it came out of.

A woman who remembers a life five thousand years ago meets, on a yacht in the Hebrides, the man she loved then — and the book explains, at length and in earnest, the electric theology behind it. Corelli outsold Wells, Kipling and Conan Doyle combined and was Queen Victoria’s favourite; this 1911 novel is the sequel to her first, and she insisted in the preface that every word of the doctrine was true.

In the Gospels of the only Divine Friend this world has ever had or ever will have, we read of a Voice, a ‘Voice in the Wilderness.’
The first sentence of The Life Everlasting
A note on this edition

The Life Everlasting, by Marie Corelli, complete and unabridged. Spelling and punctuation follow present-day American usage; the sentences, the paragraphs and the voice are the author’s, word for word.

It was written in another era and may carry attitudes a reader today will find dated. They are kept for the sake of the work and do not reflect the views of this house.

The edition
Format
Ebook
Extent
about 392 pages
Reading time
about 8 hours
Illustrations
Full-page plates, credited
Text
Complete, unabridged
Language
en
This edition
2026
ISBN
9785501183117
The plates

60 paintings are bound into this edition

Six of them are shown here, taken from the volume itself. Each is reproduced full page and named with its painter and year.

Wreck in the Moonlight, Caspar David Friedrich
Wreck in the Moonlight Caspar David Friedrich 1835
The Sea of Ice, Caspar David Friedrich
The Sea of Ice Caspar David Friedrich 1823
The Beach at Honfleur, Claude Monet
The Beach at Honfleur Claude Monet 1864
River between steep Rocks, Johan Christian Dahl
River between steep Rocks Johan Christian Dahl 1857
A Mountain Stream, William James Müller
A Mountain Stream William James Müller 1843
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, John Constable
Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows John Constable 1831
The setting

A page from this edition

Not a mock-up: this page is taken from the finished volume. The ornament above the chapter belongs to its shelf and to no other, the opening letter is set as a drop capital, and the plate below carries the name of the painter and the year.

A page of The Life Everlasting as set for this edition
The opening of a chapter
A page of The Life Everlasting as set for this edition
A page where a plate falls

Both photographed from the finished volume.

Colophon

The Life Everlasting, first published 1911, issued in this edition by Aeneas Press in 2026 on the Gothic & Horror shelf. Newly set, with the ornament of its series above each chapter and a drop capital on the opening page. Illustrated with full-page plates, each named with its painter.

Published as an ebook and not issued in print by this house; it carries one ISBN, 9785501183117, and is supplied worldwide. This edition — its setting, its ornament, its cover art, and the selection and attribution of its plates — © 2026 Aeneas Press.

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Questions readers ask

Is this the whole of The Life Everlasting?
Yes — complete and unabridged. Nothing is cut, condensed or paraphrased. This is the book, not a summary of it.
What exactly did you change?
The spelling and the punctuation follow present-day American usage. Marie Corelli's sentences are untouched — same words, same order, same rhythm.
Are the pictures really in the book?
Yes. The edition carries full-page plates bound into the text, each one named with its painter and the year it was made. Six of them are shown on this page.
How long is it?
About 392 pages, which is roughly about 8 hours of reading.
What do I actually get?
An illustrated ebook with its own ISBN, sold worldwide. One file, yours to keep, readable on any device.
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