John Melmoth, student at Trinity College, Dublin, having journeyed to County Wicklow for attendance at the deathbed of his miserly uncle, finds the old man, even in his last moments, tortured by avarice, and by suspicion of all around him.
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Melmoth the wanderer
by Charles Robert Maturin
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"In a satanic bargain, Melmoth has sold his soul in exchange for immortality and now preys on the helpless in their darkest moments, offering to ease their suffering if they will take his place and release him from his tortured wanderings. His story is pieced together by those who have glimpsed his eerie existence over the centuries--from a prisoner in the clutches of the Spanish Inquisition to a man incarcerated in a London lunatic asylum."--
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Fiction, Immortalism, Immortalism in fiction, Fiction, horror, Fiction, occult & supernatural, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Drama, Fiction, gothic, Immortalisme, Romans, nouvelles, Horror tales, Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Paranormal fiction, Russian language materials, Fiction, generalShowing 9 featured editions. View all 103 editions?
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Melmoth the wanderer.: New ed. from the original text, with a memoir and bibliography of Maturin's works.
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Originally published: 1820.
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