The Monk: A Romance by Matthew Gregory Lewis

The Monk: A Romance

Matthew Gregory Lewis

448 pages first pub 1796 (editions)

fiction classics horror dark mysterious tense medium-paced
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A masterpiece of the Gothic genre, The Monk tells the story of the Capuchin friar Ambrosio and his fall from grace through desire, greed and lust. Favourably reviewed at first, the novel was later so widely and raucously denounced for its perceive...

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