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Description
Part Faust, part Mephistopheles, Melmoth has made a satanic bargain for immortality. Now he wanders the earth, an outsider with an eerie, tortured existence, searching for someone who will take on his contract and release him to die a natural death. With its erudition and wit, and its parody... read more
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“All colours disappear in the night, and despair has no diary, - monotony is her essence and her curse."”
The Spainiard
First Sentence
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.
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Authors & Contributors
- Charles Maturin (Author)
- Charles Robert Maturin
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