Works of Charles Robert Maturin, Vol. 5: Melmoth the Wanderer

by Charles Robert Maturin

Charles Robert Maturin's well-known novel, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), occupies a high-point in Gothic literature. Lurid, vivid, sacrilegious, paranoid, anti-Catholic, painfully tortuous and gleefully drawn out in its depictions of suffering, its title character tries to find victims miserable enough to take over his bargain with "the enemy of mankind." Maturin displayed his talents of "darkening the gloomy" by interweaving tales of Melmoth's intended...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1329604938
• ISBN13: 9781329604933
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Length: 734 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"