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He was born on September 25, 1782 in Dublin.
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Dans líautomne de líannÈe 1816, John Melmoth, ÈlËve du collËge de la TrinitÈ, Dublin, suspendit momentanÈment ses Ètudes pour visiter un oncle mourant, et de qui dÈpendaient toutes ses espÈrances de fortune. John, qui avait perdu ses parents, Ètait le fils díun cadet de famille, dont la fortune mÈdiocre suffisait peine pour payer les frais de son Èducation ; mais son oncle Ètait vieux, cÈlibataire et riche. Depuis sa plus tendre enfance, John avait appris, de tous ceux qui líentouraient, regarder cet oncle avec ce sentiment qui attire et repousse la fois, ce respect mÍlÈ du dÈsir de plaire, que líon Èprouve pour líÍtre qui tient en quelque sorte en ses mains le fil de notre existence...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 edition. Excerpt: ...man, nor the last dreary array of a shrouded corse, but a shadowy envelopment he could not describe. Odo, collecting his spirits when his head was averted, stamped for his attendants to spread for supper; they prepared to do so, but first applied themselves to the recovery of the squire, who recovered only to a state of idiotism. This Odo did not much regard--the table was spread, and the attendants were prompt; but Odo observed one more prompt than them all, his eye followed the swift silent figure as it flitted around, and he saw who filled his trencher ere he could swallow its contents, and made his goblet sparkle to the brim when he thought he had drained it, so over officious was this mute attendant. The confessor himself avouched that there was one more in the chamber than he could reckon; and though he began and ended the tale over and over again, still there was one in the chamber who completely perplexed his calculation, and whom, though he saw, he never could count among the number--he ever saw twelve, but could number but eleven. The confessor betook him to his beads, and. my kinsman to his bed, (the poor squire being in a lamentable state); but he had not rested long when he was awoke by some one softly and lightly pacing round his bed, and ever and anon adjusting the clothes. Odo started up, and beheld the same shapeless, nameless thing, employed, as it seemed, officiously around his bed; and what was worse, as the bed was but narrow, the face without lineaments, the aspect not to be thought of without horror, even in the silence and absence of the grave, was now close to his--the dead one was his silent gliding chamberlain. There was no standing this. Odo sprung from the bed, roused his confessor, who was sleeping on the...
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Melmoth the Wanderer is a Gothic romance novel by Charles Robert Maturin. The story was first published in 1820. The story centered around a wandering Jew scholar - Melmoth, who sells his soul in exchange for prolongued life. "Any writing about devils, spectres, or the supernatural generally, whether in poetry or in prose, had always a fascination for him; at one time, say 1844, his supreme delight teas the blood-curdling romance of Maturin, ' Melmoth the Wanderer.' "
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He was born on September 25, 1782 in Dublin.
Charles Maturin was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
Maturin was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1803 and became curate of St. Peter’s in Dublin in 1804. His early fiction, such as The Wild Irish Boy (1808) and The Milesian Chief (1812), pioneered the Romantic Irish national tale, which was often tinged with terror.
His first popular success was the verse tragedy Bertram (1816), produced at Drury Lane with Edmund Kean in the title role, but he soon exhausted his gains from this and his next two plays, Manuel (1817) and Fredolfo (1819), were failures.
He returned to novels, producing his masterpiece, Melmoth, the adventures of an Irish Faust. The author’s ingenuous delight in the novel’s bizarre improbabilities contributes to its freshness and force. The book captured the fancy of many British writers and was especially admired in France. In 1835 Honoré de Balzac wrote an ironic sequel to it. Oscar Wilde, in exile, chose the name “Sebastian Melmoth” for a pseudonym.
(Dans líautomne de líannÈe 1816, John Melmoth, ÈlËve du co...)
(Melmoth the Wanderer is a Gothic romance novel by Charles...)
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He married on October 7, 1804 the acclaimed singer Henrietta Kingsbury.