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- English Books
- Paperback 720 Pages
- Edition: Reissue
- ISBN-10: 0140431101
- ISBN-13: 9780140431100
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- Pub date: Mar 05, 1985
- Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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Lisa 
*** This comment contains spoilers! ***
a great but shocking novel
Warning !!! This is not a book you want to read if you are in low spirits.
But what a read: written by a natural story-teller Melmoth is at once anti-christ, arch-cynic and ultimately a pityable wretch torn between redemptory love and infernal egotism, Moncada's is one of the most gripping tales of ... (continue)
Warning !!! This is not a book you want to read if you are in low spirits.
But what a read: written by a natural story-teller Melmoth is at once anti-christ, arch-cynic and ultimately a pityable wretch torn between redemptory love and infernal egotism, Moncada's is one of the most gripping tales of misery and torture, and despite the apparently obligatory misogynist language in classical novels it contains three of the most powerfull and most moving women in literature: from Elionore (who nurtures the man she loves after he married her sister and lost his sanity after her death) over the spanish-jewish refugee Liz Guzman (who bravely guides her German family through a poverty that costs her husband his mother and treathens his sanity as well as the lives of their daughters) to Imallee/Isidora (who coldbloodedly tells her demon-lover whats what and fearlessly mocks the priests of the inquisition)
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