Another story by Marie Corelli, included in her A Christmas Greeting from 1901. In a beautiful clear lake swam a large family of Ducks. At the head of them all was the Mother-Duck, quacking proudly, and all the ducklings tried to imitate her voice, which they considered superior to that of the nightingale. “Quack! Quack!” said she—“We […]
Another story by Marie Corelli, included in her A Christmas Greeting from 1901. In the dead midnight, at that supreme moment when the Hours that are past slip away from the grasp of the Hours yet to be, there came rushing between Earth and Heaven the sound of giant wheels,—the glare of great lights,—the stench and […]
Marie Corelli, born Mary Mackay in 1855 in London, was an English novelist known for her romantic and melodramatic fiction. She adopted her pen name early in her career, claiming a Venetian heritage to enhance her literary persona, and her first novel, A Romance of Two Worlds (1886), established her as a bestselling author introducing […]