MELMOTH THE WANDERER: A TALE
By Charles Robert Maturin
- Release Date: 1820-01-01
- Genre: Classics
John Melmoth, a student in Dublin, visits his dying uncle. He finds a portrait of a mysterious ancestor called "Melmoth"; the portrait is dated 1646. At his uncle's funeral, John is told an old family story about a stranger called Stanton, who arrived looking for "Melmoth the Traveller" decades earlier.
