Sign-In
Cart
Melmoth the Wanderer
Paperback
Publisher Price: $56.95
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN13: 9798897184866
Publisher: Lushena Books
Published: Jul 9 2025
Pages: 600
Weight: 2.35
Height: 1.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Lushena Books
Published: Jul 9 2025
Pages: 600
Weight: 2.35
Height: 1.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin is a Gothic novel about a man named Melmoth who has sold his soul to the devil in exchange for extended life and wanders the earth trying to find someone willing to take over his cursed fate.
The story is framed through multiple nested tales, as different characters recount terrifying encounters with Melmoth and the moral dilemmas he presents. The novel explores themes of damnation, temptation, religious guilt, and human suffering, all wrapped in a dark, haunting atmosphere typical of Gothic literature.
1 different editions
Also available
Also from
Charles Maturin
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
$38.00
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
From $14.99
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
From $17.99
John Updike: Novels 1978-1984 (Loa #339): The Coup / Rabbit Is Rich / The Witches of Eastwick
Updike, John
Hardcover
$42.75
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Musil, Robert
Agee, Joel
Paperback
$79.43