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Charles Maturin
Tells the story of Melmoth, who has sold his soul in exchange for immortality in a satanic bargain, and now preys on the helpless in their darkest moments, offering to…
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library…
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Many of the gothic romance and horror stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works…
Leixlip Castle is a 1825 novel by Charles R. Maturin. Charles Robert Maturin (1782 - 1824) was a writer of Gothic literature and Irish Protestant clergyman best known for the…
After striking a deal with the Devil, Sebastian Melmoth searches for someone to take his place in the Faustian bargain. Written in 1820 by an Anglican priest, this Gothic novel…
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Charles Robert Maturin
Charles Robert Maturin's last novel, The Albigenses (1824), a historical romance of the early 13th century, is a rich tale of the conflict between the Catholic church and the Albigenses…
The three plays of Charles Robert Maturin, produced in London between 1816 and 1819, document Maturin's attempts at theatrical success. His first three novels were not popular, but his luck…
Charles Robert Maturin,Sir Walter Scott
The Correspondence Of Walter Scott And Charles Robert Maturin is a book that compiles the letters exchanged between two prominent literary figures of the 19th century, Walter Scott and Charles…
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Originally published in 1937, The Correspondence of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Robert Maturin contains twenty-two letters presenting a penetrating and vivid self-portrait of Sir Walter Scott. Since the two…
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A clear, theoretically-grounded, chronological study of Maturin’s six novels. A new critical paradigm by which to view and read Irish Romantic fiction. Offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of…
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…
Charles Robert Maturin's first novel, Fatal Revenge; or, The Family of Montorio, was published in 1807. Maturin's dark tale of the brothers Ippolito and Annibal Montorio is a complexly plotted…
The Milesian Chief, Maturin's third novel (1812), is the first of his novels to be set almost entirely in Ireland. After the 1800 Act of Union, the political and social…
The Wild Irish Boy (1808) was Charles Robert Maturin's second novel. Set in Ireland and England, the story follows the adventures of Ormsby Bethel, a young Irishman of uncertain ancestry…
In a satanic bargain, Melmoth exchanges his soul for immortality. This book tells the story of his tortured wanderings through the centuries.
Fatal Revenge; Or, the Family of Montorio (1807) is a novel by Charles Maturin. Published under the psueudonym Dennis Jasper Murphy, Fatal Revenge; Or, the Family of Montorio was Maturin’s…
Stanton was thinking thus, when all power of thought was suspended, by seeing two persons bearing between them the body of a young, and apparently very lovely girl, who had…
A collection of powerful and thought-provoking sermons by the Irish author and cleric, Charles Robert Maturin. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of religious thought…
Reproduction of the original: Melmoth the Wanderer Vol. 1 (of 4) by Charles Robert Maturin
Reproduction of the original: Melmoth the Wanderer Vol 2 (of 4) by Charles Robert Maturin
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