Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4

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Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4

by Charles Robert Maturin

EN·~7 hours·19 chapters

Chapters

19 total

Transcriber’s Notes:

0:24

MELMOTH THE WANDERER: A TALE.

0:13

CHAPTER XXIII.

19:56

CHAPTER XXIV.

26:12

CHAPTER XXV.

9:49

CHAPTER XXVI.

21:36

CHAPTER XXVII.

24:08

CHAPTER XXVIII.

1:05:49

CHAPTER XXIX.

26:09

CHAPTER XXX.

1:37:42
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Description

A brooding wanderer drifts through shadowed streets and crumbling mansions, his presence a living echo of forgotten vows and whispered curses. The narrative opens with a tangled web of letters, tapestries, and the restless mind of a young woman whose delicate hand rewrites history as fervently as she stitches silk into mythic scenes. Through her meticulous over‑casting of an ancestral tapestry, we glimpse a world where art, faith, and obsession collide, hinting at the deeper mysteries that drive the titular figure.

The story unfolds in a series of vivid vignettes, each revealing the fragile line between devotion and madness. As the wanderer's path crosses the fragile hopes of a hopeful daughter and the fervent prayers of a devout family, listeners are drawn into a gothic tableau of love, betrayal, and the relentless search for redemption—an atmospheric journey that lingers long after the final phrase.

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Language

en

Duration

~7 hours (414K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by David Edwards, Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

Dec 7, 2016

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Charles Robert Maturin

Charles Robert Maturin

1780–1824

A Dublin clergyman with a gift for the eerie and dramatic, he became one of the last great voices of classic Gothic fiction. His dark imagination lives on above all in Melmoth the Wanderer, a novel that haunted later writers from Balzac to Oscar Wilde.

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