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Melmoth the Wanderer (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback))
Melmoth the Wanderer - Oxford World's Classics Paperback Author:Charles Maturin Written by an eccentric Anglican curate in Dublin, Melmoth the Wanderer brought the terrors of the Gothic novel to a new pitch of claustrophobic intensity. 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 moder... more »n literature.« less