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Brought to you by Penguin. Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth is one of the most fiendish characters in literature. In a satanic bargain, Melmoth exchanges his soul for immortality. The story of his tortured wanderings through the centuries is pieced together through those who have been...

Twenty years ago Helen Franklin did something she cannot forgive herself for, and she has spent every day since barricading herself against its memory. But her sheltered life is about to change. A strange manuscript has come into her possession. It is filled with testimonies from the darkest chapters of human history, which all record sightings of a tall, silent woman in black, with unblinking eyes and bleeding feet: Melmoth, the loneliest being in the world. Condemned to walk the Earth forever, she tries to beguile the guilty and lure them away for a lifetime wandering alongside her.

Helen Franklins Leben nimmt eine jähe Wende, als sie in Prag auf ein seltsames Manuskript stößt. Es handelt von Melmoth - einer mysteriösen Frau in Schwarz, der Legende nach dazu verdammt, auf ewig über die Erde zu wandeln. Helen findet immer neue Hinweise auf Melmoth in geheimnisvollen Briefen und Tagebüchern - und sie fühlt sich gleichzeitig verfolgt. Liegt die Antwort, ob es Melmoth wirklich gibt, in Helens eigener Vergangenheit.

Published in 1820 and written by the Protestant curate Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer is considered one of the greatest works of Gothic literature. Consisting of a series of stories within stories, the narrative features the scholar John Melmoth, condemned to wander the earth in search of a victim to take his place and free him from his eternal torment.

De Belleville à Marne-la-Vallée, une bande d'enfants part en croisade pour mettre le feu à Eurodisney. Bienvenue aux avants-postes de la Révolution, menée par la lecture engagée, poétique et militante d'Aloïse Sauvage. Elle est née à l'Orée du bois, une cité réduite à néant par les bulldozers des médias et de la finance. Hantée par les ruines de son Eden foiré, elle a rejoint la commune solidaire à Belleville, où l'on s'organise et lutte en marge du système répressif. Elle, c'est Fi. Quarante piges à tenter de trouver de la beauté dans ce monde fatal : Fi est un chaos de fils et d'aiguilles, de coutures impossibles.

“A beautiful, dream-like, unsettling narrative in which every word, like a small jewel, feels carefully chosen, considered and placed. Rarely do debut novels come as assured and impressive as this one.” —Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying Guests Elegant, sinister...

Melmoth the Wanderer is a chilling gothic horror novel about a man who sells his soul for extended life and then desperately seeks someone to take his place. With eerie subplots, supernatural elements, and deep existential dread, this is one of the earliest and most haunting horror masterpieces.

Das Werk "Melmoths Aussöhnung", das im Jahr 1835 verfasst wurde, gehört zu Balzacs "Philosophischen Studien". Der Bankkassierer Castanier plant einen betrügerischen Wechsel um das ausschweifende Leben seiner Mätresse zu finanzieren. Melmoth erwischt ihn dabei und begegnet ihm auch bei seiner Flucht immer wieder. Mit einem Vorwort von Hermann Ebeling.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Murder by the Book by Claire Harman, read by Andy Secombe. Early in the morning of 6 May 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, a footman answered the door to a panic-stricken maid from a nearby house. Her elderly master, Lord William Russell, was...