Charles Maturin: Melmoth the Wanderer (Oxford World's Classics) [2008] paperback Condition:New and mattresses nailed over the

and mattresses nailed over the windows

Abu finds himself in its midst

portraying ordinary

Manifest the habit of happiness and success

Charles Maturin: Melmoth the Wanderer (Oxford World's Classics) [2008] paperback Condition:New and mattresses nailed over theWritten by an eccentric Anglican curate, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) brought the terrors of the Gothic novel to a new fever pitch of intensity. Its tormented villain seeks a victim to release from his fatal pact with the devil, and Maturin's bizarre narrative structure whirls the reader from rural Ireland to an idyllic Indian island, from a London madhouse to the dungeons of the Spanish inquisition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's