CORELLI, Marie. The Mighty Atom. FIRST EDITION. Hutchinson & Co. 1896
Half title, 12pp ads. Leading e.ps worn at inner margin following adhesion. Orig. dark green cloth, lettered in gilt; short repaired split at head of following hinge, otherwise v.g.
¶Sadleir 623; Wolff 1473. One of the author's most influential works, a campaigning novel against the evils of Godlessness. 'To those self-styled 'progressivists' who by precept and example assist the infamous cause of education without religion and who, by promoting the idea, borrowed from French atheism, of denying to the children in board-schools and elsewhere, the knowledge and love of God, as the true foundation of noble living, are guilty of a CRIME WORSE THAN MURDER.'