Melmoth the Wanderer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781519519306)

Written by an eccentric Anglican curate in Dublin, Melmoth the Wanderer brought the Gothic novel to a new pitch of claustrophobic intensity, surpassing the quiet tremors of Ann Radcliffe's romances in its reckless accumulation of cruelties and blasphemies. 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. Intended partly as an attack on Roman Catholicism, Maturin's intriguing novel teeters giddily over abysses of sacrilege and raving paranoia, in moments of delirious panic worthy of Godwin or Poe.

Author: Charles Maturin
ISBN-10: 1519519303
ISBN-13: 9781519519306
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/25/2015
Pages: 578
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.68lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.17d