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  • Melmoth the Wanderer
    Charles Maturin
    Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin is a Gothic novel about a man named Melmoth who has sold his soul to the devil in exchange for extended life and wanders the earth trying to find someone willing to take over his cursed fate.The story is framed through multiple nested tales, as different characters recount terrifying encounters with Melmoth and the moral dilemmas he prese...
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  • Melmoth the Wanderer
    Charles Maturin
    Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin is a Gothic novel about a man named Melmoth who has sold his soul to the devil in exchange for extended life and wanders the earth trying to find someone willing to take over his cursed fate.The story is framed through multiple nested tales, as different characters recount terrifying encounters with Melmoth and the moral dilemmas he prese...
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    61,12 €

  • Melmoth the Wanderer
    Charles Maturin / Tim Zengerink
    What if immortality knocked-when hope lay in ashes?Charles Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer is a sprawling tapestry of nested tales, each revealing another soul cornered by despair and another visit from the spectral tempter. Stitched with devils, monks, madhouses, and forbidden romance, the novel probes humanity’s breaking point-and the terrible cost of saying 'yes.'What You’ll ...
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    21,20 €

  • Melmoth the Wanderer
    Charles Maturin / Tim Zengerink
    What if immortality knocked-when hope lay in ashes?Charles Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer is a sprawling tapestry of nested tales, each revealing another soul cornered by despair and another visit from the spectral tempter. Stitched with devils, monks, madhouses, and forbidden romance, the novel probes humanity’s breaking point-and the terrible cost of saying 'yes.'What You’ll ...
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    27,14 €

  • Melmoth the Wanderer and Melmoth Reconciled
    Charles Robert Maturin / de Balzac Honore
    Few know at this day the terrible story of Melmoth the Wanderer -- half man, half devil -- who has bartered away his soul for the glory of power and knowledge, and, repenting of his bargain, tries again and again to persuade some desperate human to change places with him-penetrates to the refuge of misery, the death chamber, even the madhouse, seeking one in such utter agony as...
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    13,38 €

  • Melmoth the Wanderer (Volume 4)
    Charles Robert Maturin
    Melmoth the Wanderer (Volume 4), has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from sca...
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    17,35 €

  • Melmoth the Wanderer (Volume 3)
    Charles Robert Maturin
    Melmoth the Wanderer (Volume 3), has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from sca...
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    16,55 €

  • Melmoth the Wanderer (Volume 2)
    Charles Robert Maturin
    Melmoth the Wanderer (Volume 2), has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from sca...
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    15,96 €

  • Melmoth the Wanderer (Volume 1)
    Charles Robert Maturin
    Melmoth the Wanderer (Volume 1), has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and reformatted. The text is readable and clear because these books are not created from sca...
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    16,21 €

  • Melmoth the Wanderer
    Charles Maturin
    Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) is a novel by Charles Maturin. Written toward the end of Maturin’s life, Melmoth the Wanderer was the author’s fifth and most successful novel. Inspired by the story of the Wandering Jew and the Faustian legend, the novel is a powerful Gothic romance divided into nested stories, each one delving deeper into the mystery of Melmoth’s life. Often interp...
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    25,63 €

  • The Fatal Revenge; Or, The Family of Montorio
    Charles Maturin
    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 debut novel. Largely ignored by critics and readers, it managed to draw attention from Sir Walter Scott, who supported Maturin’s efforts and encouraged him to pursue a career as a writer. Des...
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    24,91 €

  • Melmoth the Wanderer
    Charles Maturin
    Revered as a true gothic masterpiece, 'Melmoth the Wanderer' is the last complete work by the Irish author and playwright, Charles Maturin. Since its publication in 1820 it has been admired by such authors as Sir Walter Scott, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Allan Poe, and Maturin’s great nephew, Oscar Wilde. In this story of temptation, villainy, and a satanic bargain for immortality,...
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    18,96 €

  • The Fatal Revenge; Or, The Family of Montorio
    Charles Maturin
    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 debut novel. Largely ignored by critics and readers, it managed to draw attention from Sir Walter Scott, who supported Maturin’s efforts and encouraged him to pursue a career as a writer. Des...
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    17,87 €

  • Melmoth the Wanderer
    Charles Maturin
    Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) is a novel by Charles Maturin. Written toward the end of Maturin’s life, Melmoth the Wanderer was the author’s fifth and most successful novel. Inspired by the story of the Wandering Jew and the Faustian legend, the novel is a powerful Gothic romance divided into nested stories, each one delving deeper into the mystery of Melmoth’s life. Often interp...
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    18,61 €

  • Melmoth the Wanderer (Illustrated and Annotated)
    Charles Maturin / D’Anello / Natalia Sttrazzeri
    Melmoth the Wanderer is a violent story about a man who sold his soul to the devil in exchange of a longer life, but he regretted about his deal 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 centuries of tortured wanderings. Looking back to the development of the classic gothic liter...
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    22,38 €

  • Leixlip Castle
    Charles Maturin
    '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 novel 'Melmoth the Wanderer', a story about a scholar who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for 150 extra years of life. This gripping novel will appeal to lovers of Gothic literature and is not to ...
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    15,64 €

  • Plays, Works of Charles Robert Maturin, Vol. 7
    Charles Robert Maturin
    The three plays of Charles Robert Maturin, produced in London between 1816 and 1819, document MaturinÕs attempts at theatrical success. His first three novels were not popular, but his luck improved with Bertram (1816), which ran for twenty-two nights. Even with this success in hand, Manuel (1817) and Fredolfo (1819) failed completely, partly through the sabotage of indifferent...
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    46,28 €

  • The Albigenses, Works of Charles Robert Maturin, Vol. 6
    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, a heretical sect centered in Languedoc. Its historical background does little to inhibit Maturin’s strong penchant for extravagant scenes of violence, horror, and vivid evocations of nature at ...
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    87,19 €

  • Works of Charles Robert Maturin, Vol. 5
    Charles Robert Maturin
    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 t...
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    87,21 €

  • Fredolfo; a Tragedy, in Five Acts [and in Verse]
    Charles Robert Maturin
    Title: Fredolfo; a tragedy, in five acts [and in verse].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much...
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    20,09 €

  • The Universe
    Charles Maturin / James Wills
    Title: The Universe: a poem. By ... C. R. Maturin [or rather, by James Wills].Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, s...
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    20,16 €

  • Women
    Charles Robert Maturin
    Women; or, Pour et Contre, was Maturin’s fourth novel, published in 1818. A work of deep emotional intensity, Maturin wished to concentrate on 'common life.' But he does so with uncommon psychological penetration for its time, while detailing the painful romantic attractions of two fascinating women-Eva, a deeply religious and innocent girl, and the intellectually superior, tal...
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    75,77 €

  • The Milesian Chief, Works of Charles Robert Maturin, Vol. 3
    Charles Robert Maturin
    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 turmoil caused by rebellion in the name of Irish independence disrupts the splendid fortunes of the talented and beautiful Armida, Italian-bred and English-born, who falls in love with Connal, last of an ancient...
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    66,59 €

  • The Wild Irish Boy, Works of Charles Robert Maturin, Vol. 2
    Charles Robert Maturin
    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, as he navigates through the temptations of high life, the intrigues of swindlers, gamblers, and fast women, and his own uncertainties about his place in the societies of both countries. Combin...
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    69,88 €

  • Fatal Revenge, Works of Charles Robert Maturin, Vol. 1
    Charles Robert Maturin
    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 adventure, full of 'strong and vigorous fancy, with great command of language,' according to Sir Walter Scott. Maturin’s relish for the gothic and horrid, so brilliantly exploited in his ...
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    61,83 €

  • Thesaurus Epistolicus Lacrozianus; Volume 1
    Charles Etienne Jordan / Johann Ludwig Uhl / Maturin Veyssilere La Croze
    Thesaurus Epistolicus Lacrozianus, Volume 1, presents a collection of letters by Maturin Veyssière La Croze, a prominent 18th-century scholar. This volume, meticulously compiled and edited by Johann Ludwig Uhl and Charles Etienne Jordan, offers invaluable insights into the intellectual and cultural milieu of the period. Written in Latin, these letters cover a wide range of topi...
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    26,90 €

  • Thesaurus Epistolicus Lacrozianus; Volume 2
    Charles Etienne Jordan / Johann Ludwig Uhl / Maturin Veyssilere La Croze
    Thesaurus Epistolicus Lacrozianus, Volume 2 presents a collection of letters by and to Maturin Veyssilere La Croze, Johann Ludwig Uhl, and Charles Etienne Jordan, offering a rich resource for understanding intellectual exchanges in the 18th century. Written in Latin, these letters provide insights into the scholarly pursuits, philosophical debates, and personal relationships of...
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    26,03 €

  • Tales Of Mystery
    Ann Ward Radcliffe / Charles Robert Maturin / Matthew Gregory Lewis
    Tales Of Mystery is a collection of classic gothic short stories from some of the genre’s most celebrated authors: Ann Ward Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, and Charles Robert Maturin. These tales transport readers to a world of suspense, shadows, and the supernatural, where the line between reality and nightmare blurs. Prepare to be captivated by chilling narratives filled wi...
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    27,12 €

  • Melmoth the Wanderer ; A Tale - In Four Volumes
    Charles Maturin
    In a dark twist on the Faustian legend, a cursed wanderer bargains for souls across centuries. Having sold his own to the devil, Melmoth roams the earth, offering a terrible exchange: freedom and salvation to those in their most desperate moments, in return for their soul. This complex and layered novel is a series of tales within a tale, each one a harrowing account of despair...
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    35,30 €

  • Leixlip Castle, Melmoth the Wanderer, the Mysterious Mansion, the Flayed Hand, the Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin and the Mysterious Spaniard
    Charles Robert Maturin / Guy de Maupassant / Honoré de Balzac
    Six classic nineteenth century tales of ’gothic’ horror from Benediction Classics: Leixlip Castle and Melmoth the Wanderer (abridged) by Charles Robert Maturin, The Mysterious Mansion by Honore de Balzac, The Flayed Hand by Guy de Maupassant, The Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin (Anon.) and The Mysterious Spaniard (Anon.). ...
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    11,13 €


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