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Charles Robert Maturin (1780–1824) was an Irish curate and playwright who wrote Melmoth the Wanderer (1820), one of the last and greatest Gothic novels, the tale of a man who has bartered his soul for extended life and roams the earth seeking someone to take on his bargain. Its nested, vertiginous structure and existential dread influenced Poe, Baudelaire and Oscar Wilde (Maturin’s great-nephew).
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