This is a short but powerful and quite horrific novel about the titular reincarnated ancient Egyptian woman and her desire for revenge against her former lover who murdered her, a warrior called Araxes, reincarnated in the form of a French artist Armand Gervase. It contains some dramatic passages about the power of love and passion and vengeance, and how these can lead to disaster, as exemplified in the dramatic final chapter set in basement of the Great Pyramid. Marie Corelli is very little read nowadays but should be better known - this novel came out in the same year as the much more famous horror novel Dracula, as well as Richard Marsh's The Beetle, another little known and underrated work and author. ( )

Great short story detailing what cannot be more than a week in the life of a famous French painter, Armand Gervase and the mysterious Egyptian, Princess Ziska. A true story of a reuniting of souls in a way that truly sticks with Marie Corelli's meta-spiritual thoughts. ( )