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Melmoth the Wanderer

Name: Melmoth the Wanderer
Brand: Penguin Classics
SKU: 9780140447613-PRUKDTR-UK
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English • Age Adult - Adult

704 pages • 5.16 x 7.76 x 1.2 in

Approx. weight: 1.08 lb

Publication date: 01 Feb,2001

Barcode: 9780140447613 • Penguin Classics

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By: Charles Robert Maturin

The 19th-century horror novel that inspired Sarah Perry's Melmoth

A Penguin Classic

Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth is one of the most fiendish characters in literature. 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. Influenced by the Gothic romances of the late 18th century, Maturin's diabolic tale raised the genre to a new and macabre pitch. Its many admirers include Poe, Balzac, Oscar Wilde and Baudelaire.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.