The Monk
- Authors
- Lewis, Matthew Gregory
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Tags
- general , classics , fiction , madrid (spain) , monks , horror , gothic fiction , horror fiction
- ISBN
- 9780307769787
- Date
- 1796-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.55 MB
- Lang
- en
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.
*From the Trade Paperback edition.*