Melmoth the Wanderer — Charles Maturin

This violent profound baroque and blackly humorous novel is the story of Melmoth who has sold his soul in exchange for immortality in a satanic bargain and now preys on the helpless in their darkest moments offering to ease their suffering if they will take his place and release him from his centuries of tortured wanderings Melmoth the Wanderer 1820 blended Gothic fiction and psychological realism to create a work of hallucinatory power The Penguin English Library beautiful editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century to the Second World War