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Schwab's work renews and develops a sense of the value of antiquity, that inexhaustible source of folk fantasy that seeks to interpret and explain the world with original poetic power.
The book depicts a world in which the Protestant Reformation never succeeded, and Europe remains under the strict control of the Roman Catholic Church.
The novel Taida, published in 1890, is one of the most famous works by French Nobel Prize winner Anatole France. The work is inspired by the legend of Saint Taida of Egypt, a 4th-century courtesan who converted to Christianity.
Angels do not have a timetable for when someone will die. Angels do not know why someone must die, but the secret of remaining in this world and leaving earthly life cannot be revealed to everyone, and only the chosen ones are instructed in it.
Using her extraordinary psychic gift to find victims, she is aware that her own powers will inevitably lead to her downfall.