About the book: 2012 / Maria Corelli is the pseudonym of the legendary English writer Mary Mackay, which arose due to her passion for Italy. Having composed a biography for herself and inventing an Italian prince as her real father, the writer lived her life in an aura of hoaxes. Her books, thanks to the theme of mysticism and the mysterious image of the author she created, broke all records of popularity in England at the end of the 19th century. Corelli's prose is full of mysterious and little-explored aspects of existence: hypnosis, transmigration of souls, astral bodies, etc. Queen Victoria called her her favorite writer. The novel "The Sorrow of Satan", published in Great Britain at the end of the 19th century, instantly broke all sales records, and still remains a classic of European mysticism..