![]() ![]() The Penguin edition of Melmoth the Wanderer ( 1977), edited and introduced by Alethea Hayter, is convenient and scholarly. ![]() ![]() ![]() The wanderer in Sarah Perry's Melmoth ( 2018) is a woman who denied seeing the risen Christ just after his rebirth. Honoré de Balzac wrote a sequel, Melmoth Reconcilé ( 1835 trans Ellen Marriage in coll The Unknown Masterpiece 1896). The novel is made up of a series of complexly linked stories concerning people in various extremities to whom Melmoth appears as tempter in his desperate attempts to find someone to accept his curse but all refuse him, regardless of the perils under which they labour, and after a century or so Melmoth returns to Ireland, where he disappears over the edge of a cliff. The eponymous hero, who is reminiscent of figures from the Wandering Jew to Faust, has sold his soul to the Devil in return for Immortality. (1782-1824) Irish author, playwright and clergyman, the son of French Protestants in exile, who wrote several Gothic romances and sensational plays with intermittent success – most notably The Fatal Revenge, or The Family of Montorio ( 1807 3vols) as by Dennis Jasper Murphy – before the publication of his definitive terror-romance, Melmoth the Wanderer ( 1820 4vols) anonymous. ![]()
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