(goodreads) A fictional account about rural England and its people.
(goodreads review by RW) Correlli is one of my favorite moralist Victorian novelists. Her themes are simple/straightforward and most are still relevant today. Some 21st Century readers might find her writing as cumbersome, but that is one of the reasons why I like to read and re-read her books. She writes before writing became abbreviated. Luckily for her, her career was almost over when Hemingway started slashing words from text and starting a less is better phase of literature. Holy Orders is melancholy, sweet, sad and triumphal. Good overcomes evil, if only within the 500 + pages of this book.
(goodreads, about author) Marie Corelli (born Mary MacKay) was a best-selling British novelist of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, whose controversial works of the time often label her as an early advocate of the New Age movement.