It was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2017, and was longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2017, the Wellcome Book Prize, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and the New Angle Prize for Literature. It was a number one bestseller in hardback, and was named Waterstones Book of the Year 2016. Her second novel, The Essex Serpent, was published by Serpent's Tail in May 2016. In January and February 2016 Sarah was the UNESCO City of Literature Writer-in-Residence in Prague. It won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award 2014, and was longlisted for the 2014 Guardian First Book Award and nominated for the 2014 Folio Prize. Here she completed the final draft of her first novel, After Me Comes the Flood, which was published by Serpent's Tail in June 2014 to international critical acclaim. In January 2013 she was Writer-in-Residence at Gladstone's Library. In 2004 she won the Spectator's Shiva Naipaul Award for travel writing. Having studied English at Anglia Ruskin University she worked as a civil servant before studying for an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Creative Writing and the Gothic at Royal Holloway, University of London. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer is a classic of Irish literature reimagined for modern readers.Sarah Perry was born in Essex in 1979, and was raised as a Strict Baptist.

Melmoth the Wanderer is a story of mystery and terror that engages with timeless themes of faith, fantasy, and the thin line between dreams and life. Soon, he begins having visions of his own. Disturbed, John burns the portrait and attempts to put his questions behind him. John tracks him down and finds him at a mental institution, where he was placed when his obsession with Melmoth was deemed insanity. Despite this, he discovers a manuscript from a stranger named Stanton who claims to have seen Melmoth on several occasions over the past few decades. Little is known about the man called 'Melmoth the Traveller.' A portrait dated 1646 suggests that he has been dead for over a century. Following a lead from a story told at his uncle's funeral, John Melmoth, a student from Dublin, begins an obsessive search into his family's mysterious past. Often interpreted for its criticisms of 19th century Britain and the Catholic Church, Melmoth the Wanderer is considered one of the greatest novels of the Romantic era. Inspired by the story of the Wandering Jew and the Faustian legend, the novel is a powerful Gothic romance divided into nested stories, each one delving deeper into the mystery of Melmoth's life. Written toward the end of Maturin's life, Melmoth the Wanderer was the author's fifth and most successful novel. Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) is a novel by Charles Maturin.

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