Melmoth a novel
For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure Melmoth has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history's darkest waters-and now, in Sarah Perry's breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, it is heading in our direction. It has been yea...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Custom House,
2018.
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| Summary: | For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure Melmoth has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history's darkest waters-and now, in Sarah Perry's breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, it is heading in our direction. It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts-or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has it, Melmoth travels through the ages, dooming those she persuades to join her to a damnation of timeless, itinerant solitude. To Helen it all seems the stuff of unenlightened fantasy. But, unaware, as she wanders the cobblestone streets Helen is being watched. And then Karel disappears. |
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| Item Description: | Follow up to The Essex Serpent |
| Physical Description: | 271 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780062856395 0062856391 9780062856401 0062856405 9780062856425 0062856421 |
