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400 pages • first pub 1796 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780307769787
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Modern Library
Publication date: Not specified
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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...
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400 pages • first pub 1796 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780307769787
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Modern Library
Publication date: Not specified
Description
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...