Melmoth the Wanderer Volume 3

di Charles Robert Maturin (Autore)

Booker, 2025

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. In Melmoth the Wanderer – Volume 3, the dread reaches a crescendo as the eponymous wanderer extends his cursed offer to those trapped in the agonies of spiritual despair. This volume explores the most psychologically complex and morally harrowing chapters of Melmoth’s saga, focusing on individuals brought to the brink of destruction—tempted by the promise of eternal life to escape their torment. Set against the decaying grandeur of cathedrals, crumbling monasteries, and storm-lit cloisters, this installment brims with theological conflict, emotional anguish, and gothic opulence. One of the most striking episodes features Melmoth approaching a desperate soul beneath a shattered stained-glass window, a symbolic fusion of divine collapse and moral ruin. Maturin probes the fragility of faith, the power of persuasion, and the tragic beauty of human resistance. Each character that resists—or succumbs—reveals layers of psychological depth and existential struggle. As the supernatural elements intensify, so does the emotional and philosophical weight of the tale. Questions of salvation, damnation, and divine justice permeate every page, while the Gothic setting transforms into a stage of moral reckoning. With eloquent prose and visionary symbolism, Maturin expands the scope of the narrative into metaphysical territory, making Volume 3 both an eerie Gothic chronicle and a meditation on the human soul’s longing for relief.

• Autore: Charles Robert Maturin
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 06:29:46
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Booker
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9798318476525