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Melmoth the Wanderer

Charles Robert Maturin

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1820
Pages
Pages 680

A student inherits a portrait of an ancestor who sold his soul for extra life and now wanders the world tempting the desperate. All refuse him, and he vanishes from a locked room, leaving a handkerchief on a cliff.

In the autumn of 1816, John Melmoth, a student in Trinity College, Dublin, quitted it to attend a dying uncle
Melmoth the Wanderer, Charles Robert Maturin

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