Ziska (Annotated)

Ziska is a luxuriant fin-de-siècle Gothic romance in which modern tourists in Cairo become entangled with the revenant passions of ancient Egypt. Corelli blends supernatural melodrama, occult speculation, and lush descriptive prose to dramatize reincarnation, erotic obsession, and revenge across centuries. Situated among late-Victorian Egyptological fantasies, the novel turns archaeological fascin...