Melmoth the Wanderer
Penguin Classics (Publisher)
Published on 31. March 1977
Book
Paperback/Softback
720 pages
978-0-14-043110-0 (ISBN)
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
436 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-043110-0 (9780140431100)
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Persons
Charles Robert Maturin (1782-1824) was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, going on to become a clergyman and writer of Gothic novels and plays. At first a failure, his work was nonetheless noticed by Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, which led to the staging and success of his tragedy Bertram. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, on the other hand, dismissed it as 'melancholy proof of the depravation of the public mind'.) His later plays and fiction, including Melmoth the Wanderer, were neglected and Maturin died in poverty. The work's brilliance was recognised posthumously, and it now endures as one of the most famous gothic novels in English literature.