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Vendetta: a story of one forgotten Kindle Edition

by Marie Corelli (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
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    316 pages
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  4. Publication date
    March 24, 2011
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"Vendetta is an excellent work of fiction; fans of gothic tales and thrillers will find it an enjoyable tale." - Skull In The Stars


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A man returns from the grave to discover his wife is having an affair with his best friend. Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten, by Marie Corelli, follows an Italian count whose presumed death leads to the ultimate betrayal. It’s an unforgettable tale driven by heartache and revenge.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004TS9TG0
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 24, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 624 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 316 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B087L4M74M
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 98 ratings

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5.0 out of 5 stars VENDETTA
Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2013
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THIS IS AN EXCELLENT BOOK. WELL WRITTEN , AND KEEPS YOUR INTEREST FROM START TO FINISH. THOUGH YOU CAN GUESS THE PLOT YOU CAN'T GUESS THE TWIST AND TURNS. THE CHARACTARS ARE WELL DEVELOPED AND YOU WANT TO FOLLOW THROUGH TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM. THERE IS AN AMOUNT OF DESCRIPTIVE PARAGRAPHS THAT ARE DEDICATED TO THE MAIN CHARACTERS THOUGHTS AS HE IS THE HEART BROKEN MAN WHO IS BITTER AND DRIVEN AND THIS CAN GET REPETITIVE BUT IT KEEPS YOU IN LINE WITH THE CHARACTER DEVELOPEMENT AND DEFINES THE "BAD GUYS". I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN, HAD TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT. IT IS FOR THE MATURE READER.
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Philip Sandoz
4.0 out of 5 stars Classic Victorian melodrama
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2013
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If you love Dickens, Wilkie Collins and all the other Victorian melodramatists, you'll love this. If you can forgive ridiculous coincidences and outrageous moral statements, you'll love this. If you can stop comparing Vendetta with The Count of Monte Cristo, you'll love this. I did! Pure and absolutely delightful Victorian storytelling.
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Cousin of Camus
5.0 out of 5 stars The Most Excruciating Experience and an Equally Perfect Squelch!
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2014
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Here was a sensitive and pure heart, a beautiful, sensitive young man who loved music and poetry and his best friend and his dog and his beautiful wife. It was the time of the plague in Europe and he takes an early morning walk on the beach; it's very hot and he passes out, perhaps from sunstroke. But they think he has died of the plague and when he wakes up, he is nailed into a hastily-slapped-together coffin in the pitch dark of his family's vault. It's a harrowing experience with rhodents, arachnids & other vermin. But he finds a way out only to discover his best friend making love to his beautiful and beloved wife!

He hatches a plan of vengence, and it is so ornate and detailed, like antique lace. It takes about a year of planning, developing a new identity and social position, some very trying sessions of training his emotional control and executive abilities, but he wants to kill them both. Corelli's powers of description, not only of the most delicate feelings, but also of how the sky was this or that day, how the waves lapped on the shore and the colors of the sunrise all the time he goes about his business. No detail of thought, sight or feeling is omitted. As the plan is so gracefully executed, there is an element of what could be called "divine providence" which plays an important role in at least three instances, without which this plan never could have had a chance to be successful, and it was magnificently so!

Here was a person (written in first person) so wounded by the callousness of his beloved wife and friend toward him that he was willing to "burn in hell for eternity" for the momentary satisfaction of his own vengence; thus wresting it from God's hands for this moment. And he willingly acknowledges the suffering that now would be his for the remainder of this embodiment.

It seems there was this attitude in Italy in the 1880s when this book was written, that if your wife was unfaithful, you could get away with executing her for it, for it was a better way for a man to "regain his self esteem;" not like in England where divorce was used, for divorce just freed the woman to go on with her affairs with no punishment!
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Suresh Tate
3.0 out of 5 stars Kindle edition makes it an easy read.
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2014
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I had read Vendetta when in high school in the 1950's. I read it again on Kindle. It is a fascinating story written in classical English and along the lines of Hugo and Dumas. Large tracts of musings and philosophizing can be skipped over. A dark tale with a tragic, somewhat unsatisfactory, end. Kindle edition makes it an easy read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars old fashioned revenge story
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2014
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My family had a copy of this for decades. We unashamedly stole it from one another and the poor thing was falling apart the last time it was in my possession. It is a little over the top compared to today's literature but boy is it good! A little Poe a little Dumas and perfect for a long gloomy day. It is great to have a copy no one can swipe from me and I'm planning on enjoying it on Superbowl Sunday. Get your own copy and enjoy.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Risen from the dead with vengeance in his heart
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2019
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I thought this was my second reading of this novel but my wife informed me that I had already read it twice so this has been my third reading. Even so, I enjoyed it as though I was reading it for the first time. The plot is literally out of this world. For all those who love a hard to put down thriller, this novel is for you. Chapter 17 in particular is a real tear jerker. My only slightly negative comment would be the last chapter. A bit too drawn out and a bit anticlimactic. I think Fabio'$ vendetta would have been much more effective if he had shown Nina for what she was at the wedding reception.
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Lubna Seth
4.0 out of 5 stars Well written. It reveals the inner workings of the ...
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2015
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Well written. It reveals the inner workings of the mind of a wronged lover who decides not to take it lying down but to get even.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Will not forget it!!
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2012
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My father use to tell us about this book "Vendetta" over the years, I finally decided to find and download it.
It is story of love disappointed. You will not be able to put it down, well written.
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Richard R.
3.0 out of 5 stars What harm have I done? If I am beautiful, is that my fault? If men are fools, can I help it?
Reviewed in Canada on August 26, 2022
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For my taste, this book has far too much melodrama and those long, rambling passages so seemingly prevalent in Victorian writing - especially in the first few chapters.

It's a simple tale of revenge - something along the lines of "The Count of Monte Cristo". The actual setting up and putting into motion the machinations culminating in the desired revenge is very well done.

Cut the story by 30% and it would much crisper.
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Selene
2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
Reviewed in Canada on October 23, 2017
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The book was a gift to a friend and she told me that there were no page numbers
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5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Brilliant
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 12, 2012
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This author writes par excellence. Marie Corelli was far, far ahead of her time. In time to come this author and these novels of hers will be seen as the greatest novels ever written by any author past or present. She was a literally genius with godlike imagination and technical literary skill, whose attention to craft and detail remains in my opinion, unsurpassed. It hard to imagine another writer to be born who will achieve such fantastic heights of literary prose, let alone surpass her grandiose style and achievement.
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Mrs. D. Kirk
4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining Gothic Horror - Hammer-style!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 28, 2014
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If you fancy an entertaining read with lots of action interlaced with atmospheric description, then this book is a good choice for you. It has you hooked from the outset, but I don't want to give anything away and spoil the fun. In parts it is quite violent, with graphic descriptions of death, and it is also really spooky and creepy. The narrator is obsessed with revenge and full of hatred, so don't expect a happy ending. Reading this book is like watching a really gripping film, but since it was written in Victorian times some of the language is a bit archaic and there numerous short passages and bits of dialogue in Italian and French. However, none of this spoils your enjoyment because it is such a compelling read. I kept imagining Hammer actors like Britt Ekland, Ralph Bates and Christopher Lee as the main characters, and the plot of this book would have been the basis of a brilliant Gothic horror film. The book is free on Kindle, which is great because Marie Corelli's books cost a fortune in printed format, even second-hand.
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Helen fore
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 8, 2016
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My late father told me of this book some years ago , he as a young man read this book and it had a profane affect on him . For some reason I remembered its title and author and found it quite by accident on the kindle book list . A wonderful book so well written which brought me close to my father once again.
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