Barabbas: A Dream of the World’s Tragedy

novel by Corelli

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discussed in biography

  • Marie Corelli, c. 1904
    In Marie Corelli

    Her first major success was Barabbas: A Dream of the World’s Tragedy (1893), in which her treatment of the Crucifixion was designed to appeal to popular taste. The Sorrows of Satan (1895), also based on a melodramatic treatment of a religious theme, had an even wider vogue.

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