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

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

Maturin, Charles Robert

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1329604938
ISBN13: 9781329604933
Publisher: Lulu Pr
Published: Aug 16 2015
Pages: 734
Weight: 2.70
Height: 1.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 victims: the Englishman Stanton, ensnared into an insane asylum; the Spaniard Monçada, trapped in monasteries and prisons of the Inquisition; Immalee, an innocent child of nature; Elinor, a Puritan maiden crossed in love, blighted by cruel deception. All are confronted with Melmoth's icy seductions. Maturin's uncanny aptitude for alternating vertiginous intensity with brooding melancholy and despair leads the reader to a dark side of the psyche where the heavy price paid for redemption often tests human fortitude and conviction beyond the limits of endurance.

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