Melmoth has traversed the globe leaving destruction and misery in his wake, from Inquisition-era Spain to a remote island in the Indian Ocean - and there have been recent sightings of him in County Wicklow, where our narrator is still ...
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.
À l'automne 1816, John Melmoth, étudiant au Trinity College de Dublin, suspend momentanémentses études pour visiter un oncle mourant, et de qui dépendait tous ses espoirs de fortune.