Monk

Name: Monk
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ISBN: 9780192833945

ISBN-10: 0192833944

ISBN-13: 9780192833945

Edition: 1998

Authors: Matthew Lewis, Howard Anderson, Emma McEvoy, Emma McEvoy

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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,…

Book details

List price: $9.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/14/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Introduction



Foreword



Preface




The Sermon



The Fall



The Trap



The Bleeding Nun



The Premature Burial



The Temptation



The Magical Incantation



The Murder



The Ghost



The Vaults



The Rape



The Expiation