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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
What if immortality knocked-when hope lay in ashes? Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer is a sprawling tapestry of nested tales, each revealing another soul cornered by despair and another visit from the spectral tempter. Stitched with devils, monk
Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) is a novel by Charles Maturin. Written toward the end of Maturin's life, Melmoth the Wanderer was the author's fifth and most successful novel. Inspired by the story of the Wandering Jew and the Faustian legend, the nov
First published in 1820, "Melmoth the Wanderer" is a Gothic novel by Irish writer Charles Maturin. Melmoth is a learned academic who, in order to extend his life by a century and a half, endeavours to sell his soul to the devil. However, his new