Publisher's Synopsis
Jules Amédée Barbey D' Aurevilly (1808-1889) French story-writer and novelist, was the author of. Bewitched (1854), Les Diaboliques (1874), and What Never Dies (1884). After his release from Reading Gaol in 1897, Wilde went to live in France under the alias, Sebastian Melmoth, the name of his favorite martyr from Melmoth: The Wanderer. Under this name he translated What Never Dies.
