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Melmoth the Wanderer

By Charles Robert Maturin

Book information

Publisher
Archibald Constable & Co.
Year
1820
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
22 MB (23025897 bytes)
Volume
4/4
Edition
1(st)
Pages
453\468
Time added
2021-06-06 04:51:12
Gothic Fiction

Description

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 him from his fatal pact with the devil, and Maturin's bizarre narrative structure whirls the reader from rural Ireland to an idyllic Indian island, from a London madhouse to the dungeons of the Spanish inquisition.

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