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.
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