Thelma by Marie Corelli

Description

Philip Bruce, a wealthy English gentleman out on the Norwegian coast, meets Thelma Römer beside her father’s fjord and knows at once that he has found the one rare thing his world could never supply: a woman wholly unspoiled. He carries her home to the glitter and test of English society, where she is judged, measured, and finally pursued by the very forces Corelli spent her career indicting — hypocrisy, snobbery, and the machinery of fashionable vice.

Published in 1887, Thelma became one of the most successful novels of the entire Victorian era and made Corelli a legend. Whatever modern readers make of its fervour, its sheer storytelling magnetism never slackens: fjord and ballroom, purity and conspiracy, with a catastrophe that still lands with full force.

Why readers still come back to it

• Norway rendered with real love, from midnight sun to mountain stream.
• The Victorian bestseller phenomenon, still compulsively readable.
• A heroine so pure even the drawing rooms can’t corrupt her.

About this DodaBooks edition

Set for an emotionally immersive read: clean professional type, a working table of contents, and chapter structure matched to Corelli’s dramatic build. The fjord and the ballroom both arrive in the file your purchase unlocks.