![]() ![]() However, it too carries on the religious preoccupations of his last phase. ![]() On the surface it is a return to the Gothic mode of his first romance, where he initially displayed his talent for 'darkening the gloomy, and of deepening the sad of painting life in the extremes, and representing those struggles of passion when the soul trembles on the verge of the unlawful and the unhallowed' (preface, The Milesian Chief, 1812, iv–v). “In 1820 Maturin published his masterpiece, Melmoth the Wanderer, the book for which he is chiefly remembered. Edinburgh, printed for Archibald Constable Company. Ninteenth century quarter calf over marbled boards, spines with six single raised bands decorated in gilt, second and fourth panels lettered and numbered in gilt on brown calf labels, the rest tooled in blind, marbled edges. ![]()
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