A damned wanderer roams the earth seeking someone to take on his bargain with the devil, in nested tales of suffering. Maturin's sprawling Gothic masterpiece.
Books mentioned in Melmoth the Wanderer (9)
The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth: “There was the salted salmon, (a luxury unknown even in London. _Vide_ Miss Edgeworth's Tales, "The Absentee").”
Marriage à la Mode by John Dryden: “read the courtly loves of Rodolphil and Melantha, Palamede and Doratice, in Dryden's Marriage a la Mode.”
Love in a Wood by William Wycherley: “verified the title of Wycherly's play, "Love in a Wood."”
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: “all in vizard masks, which, though worn as well as aunt Dinah's in Tristram Shandy, served to conceal them”
Cutter of Coleman Street by Abraham Cowley: “scraps from Cowley's "Cutter of Coleman street," and some curious specimens from Mrs Aphra Behn's plays”
The History of the English Stage by Thomas Betterton: “according to the history of the veteran Betterton(8), Mrs Barry, who personated Roxana, had a green-room squabble with Mrs Bowtell”
Julien Delmour by Stéphanie Félicité de Genlis: “(15) Vide Madame Genlis's "Julien Delmour."”
Henry IV by William Shakespeare: “"He seemed to go through fire and water," … (12) See Henry IV. Second Part.”
Sinbad the Sailor: “one would have imagined their lives were bound up in his, like those of the wives in the story of Sinbad the Sailor, who were to be interred alive with their deceased husbands.”
Books that mention Melmoth the Wanderer (1)
Literary Life: A Second Memoir by Larry McMurtry: “a copy of Melmoth the Wanderer, in the attractive three-volume Bentley reprint, a book that proved much easier to sell than to read.”