Name: Melmoth the Wanderer (in English)
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Author: Maturin, Charles Robert
ISBN: 9781789432954

portada Melmoth the Wanderer (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Charles Robert Maturin

Publisher

Benediction Classics

Language

English

Pages

580

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 3.7 cm

Weight

0.69 kg.

ISBN13

9781789432954

Synopsis "Melmoth the Wanderer (in English)"

Melmoth the Wanderer is a dark Faustian tale in the gothic style. It is the story of a man who sells his soul to the devil for an extra 150 years of life, a pact he can get out of only if he persuades another soul to take his place. Melmoth travels to the depths of human misery and despair in the attempt to find someone desperate enough to make such a devilish bargain. This work was a huge hit in the nineteenth century and highly innovative for its time, as it tells its story as a series of flashbacks and embedded tales, with different narrators and viewpoints. It is full of extravagant prose, convoluted plotting and archaic language - totally different to a modern novel, but highly rewarding to the dedicated reader. This is a new, unabridged edition (not a scan) of the original four-volume novel of 1820 from Benediction Classics.

Charles Robert Maturin

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(Dublín, 1782 - 1824), también conocido como C. R. Maturin, fue un predicador protestante anglo-irlandés (ordenado por la Iglesia de Irlanda), dramaturgo y escritor de novela gótica. Maturin es conocido principamente por su novela Melmoth el errabundo (1820), obra cumbre de la novela gótica, que subraya los aspectos más terribles y problemáticos de la vida humana.

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