Melmoth the Wanderer (Oxford World's Classics)
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Written by an eccentric Anglican curate in Dublin, Melmoth the Wanderer brought the terrors of the Gothic novel to a new pitch of claustrophobic intensity. Its tormented villain, a Faustian transgressor desperately seeking a victim to release him from his fatal bargain with the devil, was regarded by Balzac as one of the great outcasts of modern literature.
About the Author
Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824), an ordained clergyman in the Church of Ireland, wrote several Irish romances, in addition to his Gothic novels.
Victor Sage is Reader in Literature at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, and has written fiction as well as critical work on the Gothic tradition.
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Melmoth the Wanderer (Oxford World's Classics),Charles Maturin,Douglas Grant,Chris Baldick,Oxford University Press, USA,0192835920,Classics,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Fiction,Literary,Literature - Classics / Criticism,19th century fiction,British Isles,Fiction / Classics,Literature/English | British Literature | 19th C
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