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Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: The\Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin'My hour is come . . . the clock of eternity is about to strike, but its knell must be unheard by mortal ears!'This violent, profound, baroque and blackly humorous novel is the story of Melmoth, who has sold his soul in exchan ...Show more
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin
Category: Fiction
'My hour is come ...the clock of eternity is about to strike, but its knell must be unheard by mortal ears!'. This violent, profound, baroque and blackly humorous novel is the story of Melmoth, who has sold his soul in exchange for immortality in a satanic bargain, and now preys on the helpless in their ...Show more
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin
Category: Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
Written by an eccentric Anglican curate, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) brought the terrors of the Gothic novel to a new fever pitch of intensity. Its tormented villain seeks a victim to release from his fatal pact with the devil, and Maturin's bizarre narrative structure whirls the reader from rural Irel ...Show more
Melmoth the Wanderer 1820: with an introduction by Sarah Perry by Charles Robert Maturin
Category: Classic Fiction
When a young Dublin student goes to pay his last respects to his dying uncle, he never imagines that he might chance upon a terrifying family secret. Who is the sinister old man in the portrait and why is his uncle so anxious for him to burn it? Why is the Spanish man who saves him from drowning so frig ...Show more
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