The Monk by Matthew Lewis

The Monk

Matthew Lewis

376 pages first pub 1796 (view editions) user-added

fiction classics horror dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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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...

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