![]() MELMOTH THE WANDERER SERIES"The crowning achievement of the Gothic romance." - Devendra P. The novel is composed of a series of nested stories-within-stories, gradually revealing the story of Melmoths life. "The crowning achievement of the Gothic romance." - Devendra P. "An enormous stride in the evolution of the horror tale." - H. Melmoth has traversed the globe leaving destruction and misery in his wake, from Inquisition-era Spain to a remote island in the Indian Ocean - and there have been recent sightings of him in County Wicklow, where our narrator is still piecing the story together. For the past two hundred years, the accursed Melmoth has been searching desperately for an escape from the infernal bargain he once made. Melmoth the Wanderer is a violent story about a man who sold his soul to the devil in exchange of a longer life, but he regretted about his deal and now. The central character, John Melmoth (a Wandering Jew type), is a scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for 150 extra years of life and spends that time searching for someone who will take over the pact for him. 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 frightened when he hears the name Melmoth?Īs he digs deeper into the mystery, an intricate and blood-chilling story begins to unfold. Melmoth the Wanderer is a gothic novel published in 1820, written by Charles Robert Maturin (uncle of Jane Wilde who was mother of Oscar Wilde). If in the history of the Spaniard Alonso a paraphrase of Diderot’s novel The Nun is read, then in the image of Immali Voltaire Huron, his simple-minded, is undoubtedly guessed. 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. The love story of Melmoth the wanderer, the only love in his whole life - to a girl from a distant island, naive, innocent and beautiful. MELMOTH THE WANDERER TRIALThis sinister classic by Charles Robert Maturin, an eccentric Anglican priest from Ireland, has captured the imaginations of readers since its publication in 1820 and provided inspiration for many other Gothic masterpieces, including Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Grey and Sarah Perry's Melmoth. 2010 by Charles Robert Maturin (Author) 116 ratings Kindle Edition £0.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook £0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover £20.41 1 Used from £21.30 2 New from £20.41 Paperback £13.93 1 New from £13.93 This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. ![]()
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