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The Monk

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`The Monk was so highly popular that it seemed to create an epoch in our literature', wrote Sir Walter Scott. Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest. The great struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads its main character, the monk Ambrosio, to temptation and the breaking of his vows, then to sexual obsession and rape, and finally to murder in order to conceal his guilt. Inspired by German horror romanticism and the work of Ann Radcliffe, Lewis produced his masterpiece at the age of nineteen. It contains many typical Gothic elements - seduction in a monastery, lustful monks, evil Abbesses, bandits and beautiful heroines. 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. This book is intended for students of Gothic Literature and eighteenth-century literature.

Le moine is a translation of this work.

El Monje is a translation of this work.

Il monaco is a translation of this work.

Mnich is a translation of this work.

De monnik / druk 1 is a translation of this work.

Der Mönch is a translation of this work.

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Keywords

  • Accessible book
  • Fiction
  • In library
  • Incest
  • Incest in fiction
  • Monasteries
  • Monasteries in fiction
  • Monks
  • Monks in fiction
  • Protected DAISY
  • Rape
  • Rape in fiction

Editions

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Contributors: Matthew Gregory Lewis, C. J. M. MacLachlan,
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 1998
ISBN: 9780140436037
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Contributors: M. G. Lewis,
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
Published: 2021-02-09
ISBN: 9781513279374
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Contributors: M. G. Lewis,
Publisher: Les Prairies Numeriques
Published: 2020-11-27
ISBN: 9782382744512
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Contributors: Matthew G. Lewis,
Published: 2020-03-10
ISBN: 9781420967678
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Contributors: Matthew Gregory Lewis,
Publisher: Alma Classics
Published: 2020-01-07
ISBN: 9781847498168
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Contributors: Matthew Gregory Lewis,
Published: 2020
ISBN: 9780191919886
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Title: MONK
Contributors: Matthew Gregory Lewis,
Published: 2019
ISBN: 9780714550053
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Contributors: Matthew Lewis,
Published: 2018-11-18
ISBN: 9781731706454
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Contributors: Matthew Lewis,
Published: 2018-11-18
ISBN: 9781731706447
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Contributors: Matthew Lewis,
Published: 2018-10-31
ISBN: 9781731702395
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Contributors: Matthew Lewis,
Published: 2018-10-31
ISBN: 9781731702401
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