Melmoth the Wanderer -

Charles Robert Maturin

Serpents Tail

2018

594 páginas

19h 48m

ISBN-13: 9781788161589

When a young Dublin student goes to say farewell to his dying uncle, he is mystified to find a locked room containing a portrait of a revaged-looking man, which his uncle is too frightened to look at. John Melmoth has chanced upon a family secret which only gives rise to more questions.

As he ventures further into the mystery, an intricate and blood-chilling story begins to unfold. For the past one hundred and fifty years, Melmoth the Wanderer has been searching desperatelyfor an escape from the infernal bargain he once made. The trail of his destruction reaches from Inquisition-era Spain to a remote island in the Indian Ocean, and finally to County Wicklow, where John is still piecing the sotry together...