The most famous novel of the works of C. R. Meturin (1782-1824), an English writer of Irish descent. Critics unanimously rank Melmoth the Drifter among the best examples of the late Gothic genre in English and world literature. The book includes the famous novel by Charles Robert Meturin "Melmoth the Wanderer" (1820). The intricate plot, the transfer of the scene from one country to another, moreover, at different historical times, complicated storytelling techniques with interspersed intercalated stories of different styles and purposes, numerous characters who are in a mysterious and not fully disclosed relationship, make up the historical features of this complex novel as one of the very characteristic works of English romantic prose.