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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Marie Corelli: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Corelli's Introductory Note
Wormwood: A Drama of Paris
Appendix A: Translations of French Poems and Songs in Wormwood
1. Charles Cros, "L'Archet" (1873)
2. Anonymous, "Le Pauvre Clerc"
Appendix B: Letters from Corelli to George Bentley about Wormwood
Appendix C: Reviews of Wormwood
1. From The Athenaeum (15 November 1890)
2. From the Pall Mall Gazette (27 November 1890)
3. From The Graphic (29 November 1890)
4. From The Academy (29 November 1890)
5. From Kensington Society, qtd. in Academy (13 December 1890)
6. From Literary World (17 January 1891)
7. From The Times (23 January 1891)
8. From The Spectator (28 February 1891)
9. From County Gentlewoman, qtd. in Academy (11 July 1891)
10. From Kent Carr, Miss Marie Corelli (1901)
Appendix D: Corelli on Literature and Art
1. Letter to George Bentley, 11 March 1887
2. Letter to George Bentley, 6 April 1887
3. From "'Imaginary Love'" (1905)
4. From "The 'Strong' Book of the Ishbosheth" (1905)
Appendix E: British Views of Naturalism
1. From W.S. Lilly, "The New Naturalism" (1885)
2. From H. Rider Haggard, "About Fiction" (1887)
3. From the National Vigilance Association, Pernicious Literature (1889)
Appendix F: Nineteenth-Century Degeneration Theories
1. From E. Ray Lankester, Degeneration: A Chapter in Darwinism (1880)
2. From Gina Lombroso-Ferrero, Criminal Man (1911)
Appendix G: Clinical and Artistic Views of Absinthe
1. Findings of Dr. Legrand, The Times (4 May 1869)
2. From the New York Times (12 December 1880)
3. Charles Cros, "Lendemain" (1873)
4. Arthur Symons, "The Absinthe-Drinker" (1892)
5. Ernest Dowson, "Absinthia Taetra" (1899)
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John J Garrison
reviewed Wormwood: A Drama of Paris (Broadview Literary Texts Series) on August 23, 2018
Wormwood: A Drama of Paris (Broadview Literary Texts Series)
What a strange, disturbing novel this turned out to be. Very gothic in nature and reminiscent of Anne Radcliff at times. I had serious doubts at the outset, but after about 75 pages it began to develop into what was a captivating story of a love gone wrong. Gaston Beauvais is a well-placed banker's son, engaged to marry Pauline de Charmilles, the only daughter of a Count, and about to embark upon a life of wealth and honor. Into this idyllic scenario comes a novice priest, Silvion Guidel, the nephew of the local rector. It is immediately obvious that this man and Pauline are drawn to each other and that betrayal is in the air.
The story built momentum and I was quite torn between feeling pity for our wronged Gaston and horror at his overwhelming need for revenge on the two people by whom he feels so betrayed. Then the story went on far too long and became a treatise on the evils of absinthe. Whether lives were actually destroyed by absinthe, people went mad drinking absinthe due to the rotten wormwood used to make the drink, or actually suffered from hallucinations because of it, is disputed. That it was popular in the late 1800s and banned in 1915 is not. By the end of the book, I knew I had been hoodwinked by a clever member of the Paris temperance movement.
Even with its obvious political agenda, this could have been an interesting read had Corelli kept it to half the pages. She felt obligated to describe in great detail and more than once the travails of the addiction. As well, she turned her character from someone who could be understood as an injured man to someone who was far too callous and unfeeling toward even those who were blameless in his misfortune to be realistic. I'm sure addiction to any harmful substance alters personality and sometimes brings out all the worst in an individual, but I would not expect that it does so as quickly or as thoroughly as is pictured here. I wonder if Corelli was able to convince anyone to steer clear of the "green fairy" with this tale.
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