The Youth of Diana: An Experiment of the Future
12 hrs. 15 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Marie Corelli
Author
Marie Corelli
Narrator
Olga Lerman
Narrator
Olga Lerman
Description
For the first time in Russian!
Unmarried Diana May, having entered her fifth decade, feels like a burdensome weight for affluent but cold parents and a stranger among people who worship youth and outward attractiveness. By staging her own death—drowning—she responds to a mysterious advertisement by a Swiss scientist, promising a dangerous experience in the quest to regain youth. The experiment proves successful: Diana is transformed into a dazzling beauty, wins hearts, but this miracle has its own price—and she will still have to pay for it.
«Diana’s Youth. An Experiment of the Future» is a mystical novel with biting satire of the social mores of the early 20th century, and with science-fiction motifs.
Maria Corelli (1855–1924) — one of the most widely read British writers of the late Victorian and Edwardian era. The print runs of her books surpassed the combined sales of works by many famous contemporaries—for example, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling. But the patriarchal order did not forgive a woman either for the scale of her success or for her talent, so critics often answered her popularity with sharp, mocking reviews.
She wrote 25 novels, many of which became loud bestsellers of their time, including «The Sorrows of Satan» and «Vendetta. The Story of a Forgotten One». Her prose is rooted in romance, spiritualism, mysticism, fantasy, and science fiction.
Unmarried Diana May, having entered her fifth decade, feels like a burdensome weight for affluent but cold parents and a stranger among people who worship youth and outward attractiveness. By staging her own death—drowning—she responds to a mysterious advertisement by a Swiss scientist, promising a dangerous experience in the quest to regain youth. The experiment proves successful: Diana is transformed into a dazzling beauty, wins hearts, but this miracle has its own price—and she will still have to pay for it.
«Diana’s Youth. An Experiment of the Future» is a mystical novel with biting satire of the social mores of the early 20th century, and with science-fiction motifs.
Maria Corelli (1855–1924) — one of the most widely read British writers of the late Victorian and Edwardian era. The print runs of her books surpassed the combined sales of works by many famous contemporaries—for example, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling. But the patriarchal order did not forgive a woman either for the scale of her success or for her talent, so critics often answered her popularity with sharp, mocking reviews.
She wrote 25 novels, many of which became loud bestsellers of their time, including «The Sorrows of Satan» and «Vendetta. The Story of a Forgotten One». Her prose is rooted in romance, spiritualism, mysticism, fantasy, and science fiction.
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