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Author : Charles Robert Maturin
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Horror tales, English
ISBN : 9781427071958
Author : Charles Robert Maturin
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465612229
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. The recollection of this awful uncle from infancy,—when he was never permitted to approach him without innumerable lectures,—not to be troublesome,—not to go too near his uncle,—not to ask him any questions,—on no account to disturb the inviolable arrangement of his snuff-box, hand-bell, and spectacles, nor to suffer the glittering of the gold-headed cane to tempt him to the mortal sin of handling it,—and, finally, to pilot himself aright through his perilous course in and out of the apartment without striking against the piles of books, globes, old newspapers, wig-blocks, tobacco-pipes, and snuff-cannisters, not to mention certain hidden rocks of rat-traps and mouldy books beneath the chairs,—together with the final reverential bow at the door, which was to be closed with cautious gentleness, and the stairs to be descended as if he were “shod with felt.”—This recollection was carried on to his school-boy years, when at Christmas and Easter, the ragged poney, the jest of the school, was dispatched to bring the reluctant visitor to the Lodge,—where his pastime was to sit vis-a-vis to his uncle, without speaking or moving, till the pair resembled Don Raymond and the ghost of Beatrice in the Monk,—then watching him as he picked the bones of lean mutton out of his mess of weak broth, the latter of which he handed to his nephew with a needless caution not to “take more than he liked,”—then hurried to bed by day-light, even in winter, to save the expence of an inch of candle, where he lay awake and restless from hunger, till his uncle’s retiring at eight o’clock gave signal to the governante of the meagre household to steal up to him with some fragments of her own scanty meal, administering between every mouthful a whispered caution not to tell his uncle. Then his college life, passed in an attic in the second square, uncheered by an invitation to the country; the gloomy summer wasted in walking up and down the deserted streets, as his uncle would not defray the expences of his journey;—the only intimation of his existence, received in quarterly epistles, containing, with the scanty but punctual remittance, complaints of the expences of his education, cautions against extravagance, and lamentations for the failure of tenants and the fall of the value of lands. All these recollections came over him, and along with them the remembrance of that last scene, where his dependence on his uncle was impressed on him by the dying lips of his father.
Author : Charles Robert Maturin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Immortalism
ISBN : NLS:V001490810
Author : Sarah Perry
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062666390
NOW AN APPLE TV+ SERIES A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction * Winner of the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year and overall Book of the Year *A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year * Waterstones Book of the Year * Costa Book Award Finalist “A novel of almost insolent ambition—lush and fantastical, a wild Eden behind a garden gate...it’s part ghost story and part natural history lesson, part romance and part feminist parable. I found it so transporting that 48 hours after completing it, I was still resentful to be back home.” —New York Times London, 1893. When Cora Seaborne’s brilliant, domineering husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness: her marriage was an unhappy one, and she never suited the role of society wife. Seeking refuge in fresh air and open space, she leaves the metropolis for coastal Essex, accompanied by her inquisitive and obsessive eleven-year-old son, Francis, and the boy’s nanny, Martha, her fiercely protective friend. Once there, they hear rumors that after nearly three hundred years, the mythical Essex Serpent, a fearsome creature that once roamed the marshes, has returned. When a young man is mysteriously killed on New Year’s Eve, the community’s dread transforms to terror. Cora, a keen amateur naturalist with no patience for religion or superstition, is immediately enthralled, certain that what locals think is a magical sea beast may be a previously undiscovered species. Eager to investigate, she is introduced to parish vicar William Ransome, who is equally suspicious of the rumors but for different reasons: a man of faith, he is convinced the alarming reports are caused by moral panic, a flight from the correct and righteous path. As Cora and William attempt to discover the truth about the Essex Serpent’s existence, these seeming opposites find themselves inexorably drawn together in an intense relationship that will change both of them in ways entirely unexpected. And as they search for answers, Cora’s London past follows her to the coast, with striking consequences. Told with exquisite grace and intelligence, The Essex Serpent masterfully explores questions of science and religion, skepticism and faith, but it is most of all a celebration of love, and the many different—and surprising—guises it can take.
Author : Charles Robert Maturin
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781425005870
A famed Gothic novel published in 1820, it teaches a moral lesson in the guise of a terrifying tale. The protagonist of the story sells his soul to the devil in exchange of 150 years of power, knowledge and happiness. But later he regrets making this bargain and searches for someone who can help him. Spine-chilling!
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732658619
Reproduction of the original: Sebastian Melmoth by Oscar Wilde
Author : Sarah Perry
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781846689468
The debut novel by the bestselling author of THE ESSEX SERPENT One hot summer's day, John Cole decides to leave his life behind. He shuts up the bookshop no one ever comes to and drives out of London. When his car breaks down and he becomes lost on an isolated road, he goes looking for help, and stumbles into the grounds of a grand but dilapidated house. Its residents welcome him with open arms - but there's more to this strange community than meets the eye. They all know him by name, they've prepared a room for him, and claim to have been waiting for him all along. Who are these people? And what do they intend for John? Elegant, gently sinister and psychologically complex, After Me Comes the Flood is the haunting debut novel by the author of The Essex Serpent.
Author : Charles Maturin
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547671664
Melmoth the Wanderer tells the story of John Melmoth, a Dublin student and a scholar who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for 150 extra years of life, and searches the world for someone who will take over the pact for him, in a manner reminiscent of the Wandering Jew.
Author : mrs. J Jenner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1816
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600053341
Author : Charles Robert Maturin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752420937
Reproduction of the original: Melmoth the Wanderer Vol. 1 (of 4) by Charles Robert Maturin
Author : Charles Maturin
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788027247066
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Melmoth the Wanderer tells the story of John Melmoth, a Dublin student and a scholar who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for 150 extra years of life, and searches the world for someone who will take over the pact for him, in a manner reminiscent of the Wandering Jew.
Author : Charles Robert Maturin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : English fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015021040004
Author : M.C. Robert
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781142194277
Author : Charles Robert Maturin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781329604933
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 talents of "darkening the gloomy" by interweaving tales of Melmoth's intended victims: the Englishman Stanton, ensnared into an insane asylum; the Spaniard Moncada, trapped in monasteries and prisons of the Inquisition; Immalee, an innocent child of nature; Elinor, a Puritan maiden crossed in love, blighted by cruel deception. All are confronted with Melmoth's icy seductions. Maturin's uncanny aptitude for alternating vertiginous intensity with brooding melancholy and despair leads the reader to a dark side of the psyche where the heavy price paid for redemption often tests human fortitude and conviction beyond the limits of endurance."
Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556007879059