Charles Robert Maturin (1782–1824)
Autor/a de Melmoth the Wanderer
Sobre l'autor
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Obres de Charles Robert Maturin
Bibliotheca Dracula. 9 Romane in 3 Bänden: Frankenstein - Dracula - Im Haus des Grafen Dracula - Melmoth - Der… (1978) 5 exemplars
The Albigenses, A Romance: Volume IV 4 exemplars
Leixlip Castle, Melmoth the Wanderer, the Mysterious Mansion, the Flayed Hand, the Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin… (2010) 3 exemplars
Melmoth the Wanderer, v.4 2 exemplars
Melmoth The Wanderer V2: With A Memoir And Bibliography Of Maturin's Works (1892) (2008) 2 exemplars
Melmoth the Wanderer, v.3 2 exemplars
The Milesian chief a romance 1 exemplars
Sermons 1 exemplars
Melmoth the Wanderer, v.2 1 exemplars
Melmoth the Wanderer, v.1 1 exemplars
Fredolfo 1 exemplars
The Tale of Guzman's Family 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Great British Tales of Terror: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance 1765-1840 (1972) — Col·laborador — 81 exemplars
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories: English, Irish (1907) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- Murphy, Dennis Jasper (pseudonym)
- Data de naixement
- 1782-09-25
- Data de defunció
- 1824-10-30
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- Ireland
- Lloc de naixement
- Dublin, Ireland
- Lloc de defunció
- Dublin, Ireland
- Llocs de residència
- Dublin, Ireland
- Educació
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Professions
- clergyman
playwright
novelist - Relacions
- Wilde, Oscar (great-nephew)
- Organitzacions
- Church of Ireland
Membres
Converses
Melmoth the Wanderer a Gothic Literature (abril 7)
Group Read, October 2023: Melmoth the Wanderer a 1001 Books to read before you die (octubre 2023)
Ressenyes
Llistes
1820s (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 30
- També de
- 13
- Membres
- 1,802
- Popularitat
- #14,283
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 35
- ISBN
- 106
- Llengües
- 8
- Preferit
- 8
I really didn't care for this classic, supposedly a Gothic horror novel, but I don't want to give it just 1* rating because as a classic it must have some merit that I just didn't see.
It started off OK - Gothic horror is not a genre I care much for but I have enjoyed some of them so I was willing to give it a chance. But just as the story seemed to be getting going, the main character John Melmoth helps rescue a Spanish man who had been in a shipwreck. The Spaniard proceeds to tell John his life story. That story within a story contains another story told to the Spaniard about a girl in India. The Indian's Tale goes on to contain not one but two other stories! Finally the Indian's Tale is finished (at about 90% of the way through the book) but the reader never gets to hear the end of the Spaniard's Tale. The ending is abrupt and anticlimatic.
Most of the book struck me as Maturin telling horrible stories about Catholics, especially the priesthood. Having chosen Spain as the setting for most of the book, he makes use of the Spanish Inquisition freely but even the 'friendly' priests are portrayed as worldly, power-hungry, bitter or impotent. Melmoth the Wanderer came across to me as pathetic more than frightening but to be frank, after the first third of the book I wasn't paying close attention any more.… (més)