Melmoth the Wanderer
by Charles Maturin
1820
ISBN/ASIN: 014044761X
Number of pages: 639
Description:
Part Faust, part Mephistopheles, Melmoth has made a satanic bargain for immortality. Now he wanders the earth, an outsider with an eerie, tortured existence, searching for someone who will take on his contract and release him to die a natural death.
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