One episode in this novel sees two illicit lovers descend into hatred while trapped in a room in a convent and culminates in the man devouring his erstwhile paramour's shoulder in a pelopsian fit of hunger.  Disaster ensues in this novel after Antonio is told his real name i
One episode in this novel sees two illicit lovers descend into hatred while trapped in a room in a convent and culminates in the man devouring his erstwhile paramour's shoulder in a pelopsian fit of hunger.  Disaster ensues in this novel after Antonio is told his real name is Manasseh-ben-Solomon by his father, who tells the story of the native girl Immalee.  The stories of the lovers John Sandal and Elinor Mortimer and of the starving Walberg family are told to Immalee's father, Don Francisco de Aliaga, by the title character, who eventually comes to claim Immalee at a masked ball.  Other characters previously approached by the title character include Stanton, who was eventually confined to Bedlam, and Alonzo Moncada, who tells John the story of his titular ancestor.  The title character is condemned to serve Satan by tempting the innocent for 150 years in, for 10 points, what gothic novel by Charles Robert Maturin?
One episode in this novel sees two illicit lovers descend into hatred while trapped in a room in a convent and culminates in the man devouring his erstwhile paramour's shoulder in a pelopsian fit of hunger.  
Melmoth the Wanderer