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Charles Maturin
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1782–1824 · Irish writer

Also known as: Charles Robert Maturin, Чарлз Роберт Метьюрин, تشارلز ماتورين, チャールズ・ロバート・マチューリン, 查爾斯·羅伯特·馬圖林, Метьюрин

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Known works

  • Melmoth the Wanderer (1820)
  • The fatal revenge (1974)
  • The Albigenses (1824)
  • Five sermons on the errors of the Roman Catholic Church (1824)
  • Melmoth, the Wanderer! [play]