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Matthew Gregory Lewis' The Monk, popular for its sexual and religious deviance, was first adapted for the stage less than a year after its publication in 1796.
The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. A quickly written book from early in Lewis's career, it was published before he turned twenty.
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Ambrosio is an extremely devout monk about 30 years old.
The Monk's convoluted and scandalous plot has made it one of the most important Gothic novels of its time. Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest.
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The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. A quickly written book from early in Lewis's career, it was published before he turned twenty.
" -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Critical Review, February 1797 Written in ten weeks when the author was nineteen and published in 1796 when he was twenty, Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk is the most lurid of the Gothic novels and one of ...
The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796.
This edition contains a new introduction which shows how Lewis played with convention, ranging from gruesome realism to social comedy, and even parodied the Gothic genre in which he was writing.
The Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and appendices of historical materials that address the novel’s literary sources (in English, German, and Greek literature), historical contexts (the French Revolution, slavery and ...
But, as the Introduction to this new edition shows, Lewis also played with convention, ranging from gruesome realism to social comedy, and even parodied the genre in which he was writing.
The Monk
However his monastery is harboring a malevolent force in the form of a young monk called Rosario. Rosario attaches himself to the abbot and then one fateful night reveals that he is in fact a beautiful woman in disguise.
' The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror novel in English literature.
The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. A quickly written book from early in Lewis's career, it was published before he turned twenty.
The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. A quickly written book from early in Lewis's career, it was published before he turned twenty.
This edition of The Monk, set from the unexpurgated first edition, includes an introduction by John Berryman.
This Standard Ebooks edition follows the full, unexpurgated second edition of the novel.