The Sorrows of Satan or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest.

Title: The Sorrows of Satan or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire.
Author: By Marie Corelli. 
Publisher: Methuen & Co: London.
Published Date: 1896. Thirty-First Edition.
Pagination: pp.487+ catalogue of books.  
Condition: Fair - Good.
 
 
Bound in a black cloth with a wings and star design to the front cover and gilt lettering to the cover and spine. The boards have some rubbing and bumping to the edges, corners and to the head and tail of the spine. The contents are age toned, with an ink inscription to the front free endpaper, some light intermittent foxing and spotting to the page edges. The catalogue to the rear of the book has a couple of tears and a small section of loss to the upper pages. 
 
 
This was not a book I was familiar with and so I sourced the following information from Valencourt Books: 
"When the Devil arrives in fin de siècle London in the form of the handsome and charming Prince Lucio Rimânez, his work promises to be easy. After all, in a world where science and materialism have replaced a belief in God, who will suspect Lucio of being Satan in disguise? Lucio sets his sights on Geoffrey Tempest, a starving novelist who has just inherited a fortune, and promises to guide him to power and fame. As the tragic story of Geoffrey's meteoric rise and fall unfolds, Marie Corelli lays bare the hypocrisy, immorality, and irreligiousness of modern life, satire which is as fresh and relevant today as ever. Marie Corelli (1855-1924) was one of the most popular and best-selling novelists of the late Victorian period, her books selling in the millions of copies worldwide."