Charles Robert Maturin (1782–1824)
Autore di Melmoth the Wanderer
Sull'Autore
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Opere di Charles Robert Maturin
Bibliotheca Dracula. 9 Romane in 3 Bänden: Frankenstein - Dracula - Im Haus des Grafen Dracula - Melmoth - Der… (1978) 5 copie
Leixlip Castle, Melmoth the Wanderer, the Mysterious Mansion, the Flayed Hand, the Ruins of the Abbey of Fitz-Martin… (2010) 3 copie
Melmoth the Wanderer, v.4 2 copie
Melmoth the Wanderer, v.3 2 copie
The Milesian chief a romance 1 copia
Sermons 1 copia
Melmoth the Wanderer, v.2 1 copia
Melmoth the Wanderer, v.1 1 copia
Fredolfo 1 copia
The Tale of Guzman's Family 1 copia
Opere correlate
Great British Tales of Terror: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance 1765-1840 (1972) — Collaboratore — 81 copie
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories: English, Irish (1907) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Murphy, Dennis Jasper (pseudonym)
- Data di nascita
- 1782-09-25
- Data di morte
- 1824-10-30
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Ireland
- Luogo di nascita
- Dublin, Ireland
- Luogo di morte
- Dublin, Ireland
- Luogo di residenza
- Dublin, Ireland
- Istruzione
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Attività lavorative
- clergyman
playwright
novelist - Relazioni
- Wilde, Oscar (great-nephew)
- Organizzazioni
- Church of Ireland
Utenti
Discussioni
Group Read, October 2023: Melmoth the Wanderer in 1001 Books to read before you die (Ottobre 2023)
Melmoth the Wanderer in Gothic Literature (Marzo 2019)
Recensioni
Liste
1820s (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 30
- Opere correlate
- 13
- Utenti
- 1,799
- Popolarità
- #14,303
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 35
- ISBN
- 106
- Lingue
- 8
- Preferito da
- 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.… (altro)