Name: Fatal Revenge, Works of Charles Robert Maturin, Vol. 1
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Author: Maturin, Charles Robert
ISBN: 9781304373427

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Fatal Revenge, Works of Charles Robert Maturin, Vol. 1

Type

Physical Book

Author

Charles Robert Maturin

Publisher

Lulu.com

Language

English

Pages

706

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 4.3 cm

Weight

1.18 kg.

ISBN13

9781304373427

Synopsis "Fatal Revenge, Works of Charles Robert Maturin, Vol. 1"

Charles Robert Maturin's first novel, Fatal Revenge; or, The Family of Montorio, was published in 1807. Maturin's dark tale of the brothers Ippolito and Annibal Montorio is a complexly plotted adventure, full of "strong and vigorous fancy, with great command of language," according to Sir Walter Scott. Maturin's relish for the gothic and horrid, so brilliantly exploited in his masterpiece of 1820, Melmoth the Wanderer, here makes its first appearance, and the themes that haunted the later novel find their initial expression in Fatal Revenge. Maturin's unique talents of "darkening the gloomy, and of deepening the sad; of painting life in extremes, and representing those struggles of passion when the soul trembles on the verge of the unlawful and the unhallowed," make Fatal Revenge a compelling essay into the twilight world of the late gothic novel, one in which both innocence and evil are ultimately unable to triumph over the forces that overwhelm them.

Charles Robert Maturin

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(Dublin, 1782 - 1824), also known as C. R. Maturin, was an Anglo-Irish Protestant preacher (ordained by the Church of Ireland), playwright, and Gothic novelist. Maturin is best known for his novel Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), a masterpiece of Gothic fiction that highlights the most terrible and problematic aspects of human life.

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