Melmoth the Wanderer (Oxford World's Classics)
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THIS BOOK IS THE GRANDFATHER OF POE, MARY SHELLEY, BRAM STOKER, JOYCE AND EVEN DICKENS WITH GREAT INTRO BY SAGE
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I found the introduction extremely informative and helpful, and well structured with "chapter headings". Sage's learned and informative frequent footnotes are also extremely helpful at all times, the fruit of his own extensive research into this landmark work, the motherlode of so much that follows up to our fallen post-literate times.
From the start you can see the heavy influence this work had on so many later Irish and English novelists, and yet the author died in grinding poverty and rejection (hey, so did Joyce and other IRish novelists who CREATE a new form of writing).
It is amazing to read this novel and see how very much Maturin influenced so many other supposedly more modern writers, and what a delightful and complex writer he is. You will not put this enormous book down. It is a joy and a fiery flame. It has much to say about how our institutions, including religious, kill, and even speaks to the current fashionable dehumanization of Islam.
An amazingly brilliant and "modern" work only two hundred years old and still living large and hard! Looks like this novel made the same deal with the devil! I only wish his other brilliant works, like the Wild Irish Boy trilogy were still available, and Bertram at an affordable price
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