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Excerpt from Women, or Pour Et Contre, Vol. 2 of 3: A Tale Yes, for I would be glad to hear what answer would satisfy your own conscience. Of course, you would not presume to jus tify' yourself to others by means that would not justify you to yourself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work...

The Milesian Chief, Maturin's third novel (1812), is the first of his novels to be set almost entirely in Ireland. After the 1800 Act of Union, the political and social turmoil caused by rebellion in the name of Irish independence disrupts the splendid fortunes of the talented and beautiful Armida, Italian-bred and English-born, who falls in love with Connal, last of an ancient Irish dynasty and leader of a desperate army of rebels. As she fol...

Excerpt from Women, or Pour Et Contre, Vol. 3 of 3: A Tale Tm, Mars were'on their Way to France, afiel whio¿' they purposed visiting Italy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original for...

Few know at this day the terrible story of Melmoth the Wanderer -- half man, half devil -- who has bartered away his soul for the glory of power and knowledge, and, repenting of his bargain, tries again and again to persuade some desperate human to change places with him-penetrates to the refuge of misery, the death chamber, even the madhouse, seeking one in such utter agony as to accept his help, and take his curse...but ever fails. That orig...

The Wild Irish Boy (1808) was Charles Robert Maturin's second novel. Set in Ireland and England, the story follows the adventures of Ormsby Bethel, a young Irishman of uncertain ancestry, as he navigates through the temptations of high life, the intrigues of swindlers, gamblers, and fast women, and his own uncertainties about his place in the societies of both countries. Combining features of the silver fork novel, coming-of-age story, and to ...

Women, or, Pour et Contre, was Maturin's fourth novel, published in 1818. A work of deep emotional intensity, Maturin wished to concentrate on "common life." But he does so with uncommon psychological penetration for its time, while detailing the painful romantic attractions of two fascinating women-Eva, a deeply religious and innocent girl, and the intellectually superior, talented, and popular Zaira-to the same man, De Courcy. While also sat...

Charles Robert Maturin's well-known novel, Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), occupies a high-point in Gothic literature. Lurid, vivid, sacrilegious, paranoid, anti-Catholic, painfully tortuous and gleefully drawn out in its depictions of suffering, its title character tries to find victims miserable enough to take over his bargain with "the enemy of mankind." Maturin displayed his talents of "darkening the gloomy" by interweaving tales of Melmoth's...

Excerpt from The Wanderer, Vol. 2 Pandere res alta terrâ et caligine mersas. I'll shew your Grace the strangest sight, - Body o'me, what is it, Butts? - Henry the Eighth. "Of the desolation of mind into which the rejection of my appeal plunged me, I can give no account, for I retain no distinguishing image. All colours disappear in the night, and despair has no diary, - monotony is her essence and her curse. Hours have I walked in the garde...

Excerpt from Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 1Charles robert maturin was born at Dublin in 1782. He belonged to a family of exiled French Protestants who came over to Ireland after the revo cation Of the Edict of Nantes. His grandfather, Gabriel Jasper Maturin, was Swift's successor in the Deanery of St. Patrick's in 1745, and his great-grand father, Peter Maturin, had been Dean of Killala in the earlier years of the century. His father, Jasper Mat...

Excerpt from The Albigenses, Vol. 4 of 4: A Romance A liveried army of domestics. Sta tioned in recesses, held waxen torches, whose light, like banners in a field, streamed for ward or backward with the movements of the dancers and the impulse with which they swayed the air, and those. Movements so stately, yet so expressive - the sweeping robes of the ladies, the gentle tread of the knights, the sonorous rustle of the long-depending garments...

Excerpt from The Albigenses, Vol. 2 of 4: A Romance To understand the cause of the knight's career, which he pursued at full gallop among the rocky defiles at the risk of his life, we must retrograde a few steps, and return to the scene that passed in the cave of the Albigeois on the night we have before described. Genevieve had sat supporting her grandfather's head on her knees, after carefully spreading under his chilled limbs her mantle of...

Excerpt from Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 3 of 4: A Tale "I ran on till I had no longer breath or strength, (without perceiving that I was in a dark passage), till I was stopt by a door. In falling against it, I burst it open, and found myself in a low dark room. When I raised myself, for I had fallen on my hands and knees, I looked round, and saw something so singular, as to suspend even my personal anxiety and terror for a moment. About the ...

Excerpt from Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4 of 4: A Tale She had renewed, in these nightly conferences, her former visionary existence. Her whole day was but a long thought of the hour at which she expected to see him. In the day-time she was silent, pensive, abstracted, feeding on thought - with the evening her spirits perceptibly though softly rose, like those of one who has a secret and incommunicable store of delight, and her mind became li...

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