title: The Sorrows of Satan (Oxford World's Classics)
author:  Marie Corelli 
description: <br /><strong>Peter Keating</strong>, a freelance writer, is formerly Reader in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.<br />
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  About Corelli:
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  Marie Corelli (1 May 1855 – 21 April 1924) was a British novelist. She enjoyed
  a period of great literary success from the publication of her first novel in
  1886 until World War I. Corelli's novels sold more copies than the combined
  sales of popular contemporaries, including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells,
  and Rudyard Kipling, although critics often derided her work as "the favourite
  of the common multitude."
  
    
  
  
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  ## _Chapter 1
  
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  Do you know what it is to be poor? Not poor with the arrogant poverty
  complained of by certain people who