Vintage MELMOTH THE WANDERER A Tale CHARLES ROBERT MATURIN 1968 Oxford UK book

classic Gothic Novel written by CHARLES ROBERT MATURIN--the book is a RARE and hard to find 1968 Oxford Univerity Press copy published in Great Britain and a HARDCOVER with the ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET . net British price in the lower corner of the front inner flap. plain white wrap which is attached to the boards. The book is titled Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale and it was written by CHARLES MATURIN and edited with an introduction by DOUGLAS GRANT; it was published by Oxford University Press in London, England in 1968. Written by an eccentric Anglican curate in Dublin, Melmoth Wanderer brought the terrors of the Gothic novel to a new pitch of claustrophobic intensity. Its tormented villain, a Faustian transgressor desperately seeking a victim to release him from his fatal bargain with the devil, regarded by Balzac as one of the great outcasts of modern literature.