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  • CategoryHistory
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Pages273
  • Published2018
  • File size1.3 MB
  • FormatPDF
  • ISBN9780062856395

Key ideas from the book

  • The story follows Helen Franklin, an English translator living in Prague.
  • A letter found by Helen’s friend Karel introduces a confession and a warning.
  • Melmoth is presented as a dark legend whose figure travels through the ages.
  • The legend links complicity and cowardice with the darker currents of history.
  • The novel blends historical fiction with gothic, horror, fantasy, and mystery elements.

About Melmoth by Sarah Perry

Sarah Perry’s 2018 novel combines historical fiction with gothic, horror, fantasy, and mystery elements. Helen Franklin, an English translator living in Prague, encounters a legend about Melmoth the Witness after her friend Karel finds a letter containing a confession and a warning.

The legend describes a dark-robed figure who travels through the ages, seeking people whose complicity and cowardice have contributed to history’s darkest events. Readers drawn to literary gothic fiction and stories that connect personal choices with historical wrongdoing may find this novel of interest.

About Sarah Perry

Sarah Perry is an English novelist known for bringing Gothic atmosphere and historical detail to stories about belief, science, desire, and belonging. Her novels include *After Me Comes the Flood*, the bestselling *The Essex Serpent*, and *Melmoth*. In *Enlightenment*, she turns to questions of faith and astronomy in a contemporary setting. Perry’s fiction often draws on Victorian literature and the landscapes and history of Essex, combining literary influences with an interest in how people…

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