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Charles Robert Maturin

Born

in Dublin, Ireland

September 25, 1782

Died

October 30, 1824

Genre

Fiction, Horror, Mystery

Influences

Luis Belmonte Bermudez, Homer, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, William S ...more

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Charles Robert Maturin was an Irish Protestant clergyman (ordained by the Church of Ireland) and a writer of gothic plays and novels.

His first three works were published under the pseudonym Dennis Jasper Murphy and were critical and commercial failures. They did, however, catch the attention of Sir Walter Scott, who recommended Maturin's work to Lord Byron. With the help of these two literary luminaries, the curate's play, Bertram (first staged on 9 May 1816 at the Drury Lane for 22 nights) with Edmund Kean starring in the lead role as Bertram, saw a wider audience and became a success. Financial success, however, eluded Maturin, as the play's run coincided with his father's unemployment and another relative's bankruptcy, both of them assis ...more

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Average rating: 3.71 · 6,228 ratings · 553 reviews · 156 distinct works • Similar authors

	Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin, Victor Sage (Editor) 3.73 avg rating — 5,515 ratings — published 1820 — 390 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Albigenses 3.27 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1824 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Melmoth l'Errante - Melmoth riconciliato by Charles Robert Maturin, Honoré de Balzac, Flavio Santi (Editor) 3.73 avg rating — 49 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Leixlip Castle 3.47 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1825 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fatal Revenge by Charles Robert Maturin, Julian Cowley (Introduction), Dennis Jasper Murphy (Preface) 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1806 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Melmoth The Wanderer V2: With A Memoir And Bibliography Of Maturin's Works (1892) 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1820 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 1 3.14 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1820 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bertram, Or, The Castle Of St. Aldobrand 3.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1992 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Classic Gothic Horror Collection (Arcturus Retro Classics, 7) by Charles Robert Maturin, E.F. Benson, J. Sheridan Le Fanu 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Historias en lugares malditos by Charles Robert Maturin, Charles Dickens, J. Sheridan Le Fanu 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.”
― Charles Robert Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer

tags: spirituality, suffering

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“Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all the result of petty localities, and artificial situation. One physical want, one severe and abrupt lesson from the colorless and shriveled lip of necessity, is worth all the logic of the empty wretches who have presumed to prate it, from Zeno down to Burgersdicius. It silences in a second all the feeble sophistry of conventional life, and ascetical passion.”
― Charles Robert Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer

tags: hypocrisy, vice, virtue

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“It is actually possible to become amateurs in suffering.”
― Charles Robert Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer

tags: sadism

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