Melmoth the Wanderer
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Preface
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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
21:04 -
Chapter 3, Part 1
21:59 -
Chapter 3, Part 2
27:03 -
Chapter 3, Part 3
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Chapter 3, Part 4
16:49 -
Chapter 4
18:58 -
Chapter 5, Part 1
45:25 -
Chapter 5, Part 2
40:16 -
Chapter 5, Part 3
37:52 -
Chapter 5, Part 4
44:52 -
Chapter 5, Part 5
24:36 -
Chapter 6, Part 1
36:46 -
Chapter 6, Part 2
40:28 -
Chapter 6, Part 3
35:50 -
Chapter 6, Part 4
35:20 -
Chapter 7
22:25 -
Chapter 8
31:30 -
Chapter 9
58:15 -
Chapter 10
32:51 -
Chapter 11
71:12 -
Chapter 12
67:50 -
Chapter 13
20:06 -
Chapter 14
38:55 -
Chapter 15
20:58 -
Chapter 16
29:40 -
Chapter 17
41:00 -
Chapter 18
41:06 -
Chapter 19
18:49 -
Chapter 20, Part 1
58:03 -
Chapter 20, Part 2
43:09 -
Chapter 21
44:36 -
Chapter 22
22:06 -
Chapter 23
29:06 -
Chapter 24
38:19 -
Chapter 25
14:59 -
Chapter 26
31:37 -
Chapter 27
37:49 -
Chapter 28, Part 1
34:20 -
Chapter 28, Part 2
38:03 -
Chapter 29
31:25 -
Chapter 30, Part 1
32:28 -
Chapter 30, Part 2
37:57 -
Chapter 30, Part 3
28:26 -
Chapter 30, Part 4
19:03 -
Chapter 31
9:52 -
Chapter 32
29:40 -
Chapter 33
10:47 -
Chapter 34
28:49 -
Chapter 35
22:43 -
Chapter 36
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Chapter 37
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Chapter 38
26:30 -
Chapter 39
10:32
Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) is a public domain work.
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About this book
Maturin's sprawling 1820 masterwork follows a scholar who has bargained away his soul for a hundred and fifty additional years and now roams the earth trying to persuade someone in utter misery to take the pact off his hands. Through a series of nested stories, tales opening inside other tales, he appears to prisoners of the Inquisition, asylum inmates, shipwreck survivors, and the desperate, always offering escape at a price no one will pay. The structure is dizzying and the mood relentlessly dark, a late high point of the Gothic tradition. Oscar Wilde later borrowed the name for his own exile.
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Alive again? Then show me where he is; I’ll give a thousand pounds to look upon him.
In the autumn of 1816, John Melmoth, a student in Trinity College, Dublin, quitted it to attend a dying uncle on whom his hopes for independence chiefly rested. John was the orphan son of a younger brother, whose small property scarce could pay John’s college expenses; but the uncle was rich, unmarried, and old; and John, from his infancy, had been brought up to look on him with that mingled sensation of awe, and of the wish, without the means to conciliate (that sensation at once attractive and repulsive), with which we regard a being who (as nurse, domestic, and parent have tutored us to believe) holds the very threads of our existence in his hands, and may prolong or snap them when he pleases.
On receiving this summons, John set immediately out to attend his uncle.
The beauty of the country through which he travelled (it was the county Wicklow) could not prevent his mind from dwelling on many painful thoughts, some borrowed from the past, and more from the future. His uncle’s caprice and moroseness—the strange reports concerning the cause of the secluded life he had led for many years—his own dependent state—fell like blows fast and heavy on his mind. He roused himself to repel them—sat up in the mail, in which he was a solitary passenger—looked out on the prospect—consulted his watch;—then he thought they receded for a moment—but there was nothing to fill their place, and he was forced to invite them back for company. When the mind is thus active in calling over invaders, no wonder the conquest is soon completed. As the carriage drew near the Lodge (the name of old Melmoth’s seat), John’s heart grew heavier every moment.
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Book facts
- Author
- Charles Robert Maturin
- First published
- 67
- Reading time
- About 17 hours
- Pages
- 579
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Gothic Horror
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