Melmoth the Wanderer empty. They follow Melmoth's tracks to the top of a cliff, and see his handkerchief on a crag below them. "Exchanging looks of silent and unutterable horror", they return home. Honoré de Balzac wrote a follow-up story ("Melmoth Reconciled") and considered Maturin's novel worthy of a place among Molière's "Don Juan", Goethe's "Faust" and Lord Byron's "Manfred" as one of the supreme icons of modern European literature. Oscar Wilde, during his travels after release from prison, called himself Sebastian Melmoth, deriving this pseudonym from the title character in his great-uncle's novel and from Saint Sebastian. Historian of English literature Walter
Garrison Melmoth tricycle landing gear and a single engine in tractor configuration. Garrison spent over 10,000 hours building the aircraft. Garrison explains how the aircraft's name was chosen, "I christened it Melmoth, after the Byronic protagonist of the nineteenth-century novel "Melmoth the Wanderer", who sells his soul to the devil for, among other valuable considerations, the ability to travel about at will in space and time." "Melmoth the Wanderer" was written by Charles Maturin and published in 1820. The aircraft was built from aluminium and incorporated exceptional fuel capacity for an amateur-built of its era, including two wingtip tanks and a main