The Devil's Motor: A Fantasy

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The Devil's Motor: A Fantasy

by Marie Corelli

EN·~17 minutes·2 chapters

Chapters

2 total
1

The DEVIL’SMOTOR

15:07
2

Transcriber’s Note

2:24

Description

In the dead of midnight a colossal, fire‑crowned driver erupts from the line where darkness meets dawn, his infernal car thunder‑driven across a world that unravels beneath its wheels. As cities sprawl like iron‑veined prisons and the natural world withers into ash, the demon’s roar summons a legion of humanity into a frenzied race for gold, power, and self‑destruction. The opening thrusts listeners into a vivid, terrifying landscape where virtue is trampled and the very elements bend to a malevolent will.

Amid the cacophony of hammers and the choking smoke, a handful of voices begin to question the seductive promise of endless wealth and the cost of surrendering the soul. Their tentative rebellion hints at an uneasy balance between the unstoppable momentum of the Devil’s Motor and the faint, stubborn spark of hope that refuses to be extinguished. Listeners are invited to follow this clash of cosmic fury and fragile humanity, setting the stage for a struggle that may decide whether the world falls into permanent night or finds a path back to light.

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Language

en

Duration

~17 minutes (16K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Tim Lindell, Bernard Sutton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2020-03-31

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Marie Corelli

Marie Corelli

1855–1924

A wildly popular novelist in her own day, she wrote melodramatic, spiritual stories that captivated huge audiences in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Her fame once rivaled — and sometimes surpassed — many of the literary names now better remembered.

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