The romantic will love to shudder at Udolpho; but those of
mature age, who know what human nature is, will take up again and
again Dr. Moores Zeluco. Anna Ltitia Barbauld
One of the most irredeemably evil characters in all of
literature finally returns to print in the first edition of this
classic novel since 1827. When "Zeluco" first appeared in 1789, it
was hailed as an instant classic, and its author, Scottish
physician John Moore, was ranked with Richardson, Smollett, and
Fielding as one of the finest novelists of the eighteenth century.
Influential on such writers as Burns and Byron, and selected by
Anna Ltitia Barbauld in 1810 for her series of the best British
novels, "Zeluco" mysteriously fell out of print and has remained
unobtainable since.
"Zeluco" charts the career of a wicked Sicilian aristocrat who
causes death and ruin to all those around him before finally
meeting a horrible fate. But "Zeluco" is much more than an early
Gothic novel featuring a monomaniacal tyrant: it is a rich panorama
of life in the late eighteenth century, dealing with English and
European manners and hot topics of the day, such as the abolition
of slavery. Readers will be thrilled to discover this surprisingly
humorousand eminently readablelost masterpiece in an excellent new
edition by Pam Perkins. This edition features a substantial new
introduction, thorough explanatory notes, and appendices containing
excerpts from contemporary reactions to the novel and Moores
celebrated travel writings.
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