After striking a deal with the Devil, a scholar searches for someone to take his place in the Faustian bargain. Written in 1820 by an Anglican priest, this Gothic novel consists of several tales-within-a-tale.
Melmoth The Wanderer (1820) is a gothic novel by Charles Robert Maturin.
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Melmoth the Wanderer is a Gothic romance novel by Charles Robert Maturin. The story was first published in 1820. The story centered around a wandering Jew scholar - Melmoth, who sells his soul in exchange for prolongued life.
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A famed Gothic novel published in 1820, it teaches a moral lesson in the guise of a terrifying tale. The protagonist of the story sells his soul to the devil in exchange of 150 years of power, knowledge and happiness.
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Melmoth the Wanderer - New ed. from the original text, with a memoir and bibliography of Maturin's works. Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892.
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In a satanic bargain, Melmoth exchanges his soul for immortality. The story of his tortured wanderings through the centuries is pieced together through those who have been implored by Melmoth to take over his pact with the devil.
In a satanic bargain, Melmoth exchanges his soul for immortality. The story of his tortured wanderings through the centuries is pieced together through those who have been implored by Melmoth to take over his pact with the devil.
"I want a glass of wine, it would keep me alive for some hours, but there is not one I can trust to get it for me,--they'd steal a bottle, and ruin me.
"I want a glass of wine, it would keep me alive for some hours, but there is not one I can trust to get it for me,--they'd steal a bottle, and ruin me.
In the autumn of 1816, John Melmoth, a student in Trinity College, Dublin, quitted it to attend a dying uncle on whom his hopes for independence chiefly rested.
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Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) is a gothic novel by the Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman and writer Charles Robert Maturin.
Melmoth the Wanderer tells the story of John Melmoth, a Dublin student and a scholar who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for 150 extra years of life, and searches the world for someone who will take over the pact for him, in a manner ...
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Charles Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer is a classic of Irish literature reimagined for modern readers.
The novel's titular character is a scholar who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for 150 extra years of life, and searches the world for someone who will take over the pact for him, in a manner reminiscent of the Wandering Jew.The ...