The Monk (Oxford World's Classics)
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?The whole work is distinguished by the variety and impressiveness of its incidents; and the author every-where discovers an imagination rich, powerful, and fervid.? ?Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Book Description
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. The only edition of this key gothic novel available, The Monk now offers a new introduction and notes that make it especially accessible to the modern reader.
The Monk (Oxford World's Classics)
The Monk (Oxford World's Classics),Matthew Lewis,Howard Anderson,Emma McEvoy,Oxford University Press, USA,0192833944,Classics,Fiction,Lewis, Matthew Gregory, 1775-1818,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,19th century fiction,English,Fiction / Classics,Literature/English | British Literature | 19th C,Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century
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