The Soul of Lilith, Volume I

About this book

A mystic called El-Râmi believes he can prove the soul survives bodily death. When a young girl named Lilith dies, he undertakes an experiment that keeps her body alive while attempting to call her spirit back.

Marie Corelli places the dangerous ambition of a would-be spiritual scientist at the centre of this novel. His fascination grows into an obsession with the person he claims to have saved. The first volume begins a story in which the desire to conquer death threatens to destroy the tenderness that first made the question matter.