About this book
Victorian-era writer Marie Corelli’s epic work Ardath, The Story of a Dead Self, is filled with supernatural and gothic themes. We meet Theos Alwyn, an atheist poet who is lost and disconsolate with life. He begins his journey by seeking out a monastery in the Caucasus mountains; his spiritual quest then takes him to the mythical field of Ardath, which becomes a door into a dream of another version of his self that transcends space and time. - Summary by Lisa Statler
Chapters (40)
1 The Monastery
2 The Confession
3 The Departure
4 "Angelus Domini"
5 A Mystic Tryst
6 "Nourhalma" and the original Esdras
7 An Undesired Blessing
8 By the Waters of Babylon
9 The Field of Flowers
10 God's Maiden Edris
11 The Marvelous City
12 Sah-Luma
13 A Poet's Palace
14 The Summons of the Signet
15 Sah-Luma Sings
16 The Prophet of Doom
17 A Virgin Unshrined
18 The Love That Kills
19 A Strange Temptation
20 The Passage of the Tombs
21 The Crimson River
22 Wasted Passion
23 Nourhalma
24 The Fall of the Obelisk
25 A Golden Tress
26 The Priest Zel
27 In the Temple of Nagaya
28 The Sacrifice
29 The Cup of Wrath and Trembling
30 Sunrise
31 Fresh Laurels
32 Zabastesism and Paulism
33 Realism
34 Rewards of Fame
35 One Against Many
36 Heliobas
37 A Missing Record
38 The Wizard of the Bow
39 By the Rhine
40 In the Cathedral
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