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  • Published: 15 December 2010
  • ISBN: 9780307769787
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
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The Monk





First time this book has been published as a Penguin Classic

When Matthew Lewis’s The Monk was published in 1796, readers were shocked by this gripping and horrific novel. Lewis’s story, which drove the House of Commons—of which he was a member—to deem him licentious and perverse, follows the abbot Ambrosio as he is tempted into a world of incest, murder, and torture by a young girl who has concealed herself in his monastery disguised as a boy. As Ambrosio spirals into hell, the reader encounters an array of haunting characters: the innocent virgin, the Bleeding Nun, the Wandering Jew, an evil prioress, and Lucifer himself.

This Modern Library Paperback Classic, set from the unexpurgated first edition of 1796, brings to a new generation of readers a timeless classic of gothic fiction that has influenced writers from Byron and Emily Brontë to Poe and Hawthorne.

  • Published: 15 December 2010
  • ISBN: 9780307769787
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400
Categories:

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