Maria Corelli
The Sorrows Of Satan
Unabridged
17 hours 13 minutes
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Deystvie romana proishodit v Londone v 1895 godu. Satana hodit sredi lyudey v poiskah ocherednoy igrushki, s kotoroy smozhet pozabavitsya, chtoby pokazat Bogu, chto mozhet razvratit kogo ugodno. On hochet nayti kogo-to dostoynogo, kto smozhet soprotivlyatsya iskusheniyam, no vokrug tsarit bezverie, korruptsiya, prodazhnost. Dzheffri Tempest, molodoy obednevshiy pisatel, edva svodit kontsy s kontsami, bezuspeshno pytaetsya prodat svoy roman. V ocherednoy raz, kogda on razmyshlyaet o svoem otchayannom polozhenii, on zamechaet na stole tri pisma. Pervoe — ot druga iz Avstralii, kotoryy razbogatel na zolotodobyche, on soobschaet, chto posylaet k Dzheffri druga, kotoryy pomozhet emu vybratsya iz bednosti. Vtoroe — zapiska ot poverennogo, v kotoroy podrobno opisyvaetsya, chto on unasledoval sostoyanie ot umershego rodstvennika. Trete — rekomendatelnoe pismo ot Knyazya Lucho Rimaneza, «izbavitelya ot bednosti», pro kotorogo pisal drug iz Avstralii. Smozhet li Dzheffri sdelat pravilnyy vybor, sohranit talant i dushu?.. «Skorb Satany» — misticheskiy dekadentskiy roman angliyskoy pisatelnitsy Marii Korelli, opublikovannyy v 1895 godu i stavshiy krupneyshim bestsellerom v istorii viktorianskoy Anglii.
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