Written in 1820 by an eccentric Anglican curate in Dublin, this work 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, was regarded by Balzac as one of the great outcasts of modern ...
." . . a pulse of power undiscoverable in any previous work of this kind--a kinship to the essential truth of human nature, an understanding of the profoundest sources of actual cosmic fear . . . Without a doubt Maturin is a man of authentic genius, and he was so recognized by Balzac . . ." -- H.P. Lovecraft.
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Brunner, Robert K. (Editor) [Guy De Maupassant, Hans Christian Andersen, Oscar Wilde, Charles Robert Maturin, Alphonse Daudet...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Current Books Inc / A. A. Wyn Publisher 1946
Date Published: 1946
Description: Fair in Fair jacket. First edition. Collects 31 stories by classic writers, 323 pages. Tuck [The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, page 72]. Bleiler [1978 Checklist, page 33]. Oswald Train's bookplate. Some waterstaining to the spine and to the adjoining area of the rear board of the book, and [heavily] to corresponding portions of the Dust Wrapper, top edge soiling and some page edge foxing, else would be a VG+ copy in lightly chipped Dust Wrapper. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: General Books
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781458847133ISBN:1458847136
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 5.98 by 9 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00160 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781120322258ISBN:1120322251
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 5.98 by 9 inches. This book is printed on demand [allow 1-2 weeks for printing]. (00100 pages) lang=english accessory: no accessory (Paperback ) read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Three-Quarter Leather
Publisher: Archibald Constable & Co.
Date Published: 1818
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Vol 1 & 3 bound, front board missing from Vol 2. Covers rubbed signature clipped from title page. Very Rare. Charles Robert Maturin, also known as C.R. Maturin (born September 25, 1782 in Dublin; died October 30, 1824 in Dublin) was an Anglo-Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained by the Church of Ireland) and a writer of gothic plays and novels. Descended from a Huguenot family, he attended Trinity College, Dublin. Shortly after being ordained as curate of ... read more
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