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The Monk ... Original text, variant readings, and 'A note on the text' [by] Louis F. Peck. Introduction [by] John Berryman

A spellbinding Gothic novel, The Monk is Matthew Lewis' most famous work. First published in 1796 and set in a sinister Capuchin monastery in Madrid, this violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest focuses on a monk's struggle to maintain his monastic vows in the face of temptation and sexual obsession.

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  • "anarchiste couronné"
  • "Ambrosio, or, The monk"@en
  • "Ambrosio, or, The monk"
  • "Ambrosio"@en
  • "Monk"@en
  • "Monk"@it
  • "Monk"
  • "M. G. Lewis, le moine"
  • "Temptation"
  • "Lewis's Monk"@en
  • "Luo man ji"
  • "Moine"@it
  • "罗曼记"
  • "K̲h̲anqāh"
  • "The monk"
  • "The monk"@it
  • "Romans illustrés"
  • "Monk, a romance. Polish"
  • ""Monk" Lewis"

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  • "A spellbinding Gothic novel, The Monk is Matthew Lewis' most famous work. First published in 1796 and set in a sinister Capuchin monastery in Madrid, this violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest focuses on a monk's struggle to maintain his monastic vows in the face of temptation and sexual obsession."@en
  • "Un textes gothique qui raconte le combat d'une sainteté qui se défait contre les puissances des ténèbres. Des scènes d'une grande cruauté qui déchainèrent de nombreuses réactions à la première édition. Autour de l'histoire se développent des contes fantastiques quasi autonomes."
  • "Noble and devout, Ambrosio is the abbot of a Spanish monastery and spends his days in prayer and preaching. However his monastery is harboring a malevolent force in the form of a young monk called Rosario. Rosario attaches himself to the abbot and then one fateful night reveals that he is in fact a beautiful woman in disguise. From this moment on Ambrosio finds himself seduced into a lurid maelstrom of sin and vice that it is impossible for him to resist. This title includes "The Bravo of Venice"."
  • "|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 a."@en
  • "Romantische geschiedenis van een monnik die door de duivel naar het verderf wordt geleid. De stof is ontleend aan een Turks verhaal, verwant aan de Faustlegende, en vermengd met andere volksverhalen."
  • "In what is widely considered to be the first Gothic novel, a monk must resist a temptation that could consume his soul Ambrosio has developed a reputation across Madrid for his piety and selflessness in his role as a monk. Left on the abbey’s doorstep as a child, Ambrosio took quickly to monastic life, and his fellow monks pronounced him a gift from the Virgin Mary. Despite his virtue, his status as the abbey’s favorite son is put in jeopardy with the arrival of Matilda, a woman with a terrible secret who disguises herself as a monk to be closer to Ambrosio. A sensational Gothic horror novel that is as stunning to readers today as it was two hundred years ago, The Monk is a shocking rumination of the nature of good and evil, and a morality tale that explicitly details the consequences of desire. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices."@en
  • "Demon worship, imprisonment, illicit desire, rape. With such subject matter, it's little surprise that Matthew Gregory Lewis' The Monk became a sensation as soon as it appeared in 1796. England's reading public found the book so compelling that it went through numerous editions within the first couple years of its publication. Today, Matthew Lewis is widely recognized as a central figure in the history of Gothic fiction. In The Monk , he uses the novel's twisting plots and supernatural machinery to expose the dangers of repressed desire, attack religious hypocrisy, and challenge late eighteenth-century definitions of virtue and propriety."
  • "Noble and devout, Ambrosio is the abbot of a Spanish monastery and spends his days in prayer and preaching. However his monastery is harboring a malevolent force in the form of a young monk called Rosario. Rosario attaches himself to the abbot and then one fateful night reveals that he is in fact a beautiful woman in disguise. From this moment on Ambrosio finds himself seduced into a lurid maelstrom of sin and vice that it is impossible for him to resist."@en
  • "Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest. The struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions tempts its main character into breaking his vows."
  • "Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest. The struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions tempts its main character into breaking his vows."@en
  • "Novel on a monk who is tempted by carnal desire and led down a ruinous path of ungodliness."
  • "The monk, Ambrosio is abandoned by his parents as an infant. Raised in a monastery, he is a religious fast-tracker taught to disdain sin and hold himself up as a model of purity, untempted by secular pleasure. In Madrid, as the novel begins, he is the young abbot, leader of a monastery. A mesmerizing public speaker, Ambrosio becomes proud and vain, as his popular weekly sermons quickly raise him to the status of an idol. Mischief and misfortunes ensue as Ambrosio's real virtues are put to the test."@en
  • "The Monk is a tale of ambition, murder, and incest. The struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads its main character, the monk Ambrosio, to temptation and the breaking of his vows."@en
  • "Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder and incest."@en
  • "Leonella and her niece, Antonia, visit a church to hear the sermon of acelebrated priest, Ambrosio, and while waiting tell their story to two young men, Don Lorenzo and Don Christoval. Antonia's Grandfather is the Marquis de las Cisternas, who was unhappy with his son's marriage, causing her parents to flee, leaving their young son behind only to be told a month later he has died."@en
  • "The classic, late-eighteenth-century horror novel described as lewd and libidinous at the time of its original publication in 1796 tells the story of a monk-turned-serial killer who rapes and kills women, is sentenced to death by the Inquisition, and sells his soul to the devil."
  • "The classic, late-eighteenth-century horror novel described as lewd and libidinous at the time of its original publication in 1796 tells the story of a monk-turned-serial killer who rapes and kills women, is sentenced to death by the Inquisition, and sells his soul to the devil."@en
  • "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 19. It contains many typical Gothic elements - seduction in a monastery, lustful monks, evil Abbesses, bandits, and beautiful heroines. But, as the Introduction to this new edition shows, Lewis also played with convention, ranging from gruesome realism to social comedy, and even parodied the genre in which he was writing."
  • "The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. It was written before the author turned 20, in the space of 10 weeks. The story concerns Ambrosio - a pious, well-respected monk in Spain - and his violent downfall. He is undone by carnal lust for his pupil, a woman disguised as a monk (Matilda), who tempts him to transgress, and, once satisfied by her, is overcome with desire for the innocent Antonia. The Monk is remembered for being one of the more lurid and "transgressive" of Gothic novels ..."@en
  • "Een schijnheilige monnik wordt door de duivel van de ene schanddaad tot de andere gebracht."
  • ""Savaged by critics for its supposed profanity and obscenity, and bought in large numbers by readers eager to see whether it lived up to its lurid reputation, The Monk became a succès de scandale when it was published in 1796--not least because its author was a member of parliament and only twenty years old. It recounts the diabolical decline of Ambrosio, a Capuchin superior, who succumbs first to temptations offered by a young girl who has entered his monastery disguised as a boy, and continues his descent with increasingly depraved acts of sorcery, murder, incest and torture. Combining sensationalism with acute psychological insight, this masterpiece of Gothic fiction is a powerful exploration of how violent and erotic impulses can break through the barriers of social and moral restraint. This edition is based on the first edition of 1796, which appeared before Lewis's revisions to avoid charges of blasphemy. In his introduction, Christopher MacLachlan discusses the novel's place within the Gothic genre, and its themes of sexual desire and the abuse of power."--Publisher description."
  • "Epouvante, saisissement, romanesque sont les pointes du triangle de ce récit considéré comme l'un des chefs-d'oeuvre du roman gothique anglais. De l'orgueil faustien à la sensualité démoniaque, l'histoire de la déchéance d'un homme en un réseau de complications labyrinthales qui tiennent le lecteur en haleine et entretiennent l'horreur de situations inavouables. Quoique tout cet appareil rhétorique appartienne au romantisme le plus échevelé qui a d'ailleurs inéluctablement daté ce genre de romans, quelques échantillons de cette immense production méritent de surnager, dont ce livre publié en 1795. Cette édition comporte deux documents éclairants: une préface du traduct."
  • "This book, written when its author was nineteen years old, is held to be one of the finest of the 'Gothic' novels which enjoyed great popularity in the eighteenth century. It is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest, set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid. The great struggle between maintaining monastic vows and the fulfilment of 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 mixture of the supernatural, the horrible, and the carnal, makes this book as sensational as when it was first published in 1796 [Publisher description]"@en

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  • "Horror fiction"
  • "Horror fiction"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Powieść angielska"
  • "Aquatints"@en
  • "Novel·les"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Science fiction"
  • "Gothic fiction"
  • "Gothic fiction"@en
  • "Gothic fiction (Literary genre)"@en
  • "Gothic fiction (Literary genre)"
  • "e-book [online only]"
  • "Online resources"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Mystery and detective fiction"
  • "Classical fiction"
  • "Horror tales"@en
  • "Horror tales"
  • "Powieść gotycka angielska"
  • "Literatura grozy angielska"@pl
  • "Literatura grozy angielska"
  • "Early works"@en
  • "Early works"
  • "Erotica"
  • "Romances"@en
  • "Advertisements"
  • "Translations"
  • "Large type books"@en

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  • "The Monk ... Original text, variant readings, and 'A note on the text' [by] Louis F. Peck. Introduction [by] John Berryman"@en
  • "Der Mönch"
  • "The monk : Original text, variant readings, and "a note on the text". Introduction John Berryman"
  • "The Monk: a romance. Second edition"@en
  • "O kalogeros : (tou Liouis)"
  • ""Monk" Lewis: Le moine"
  • "The monk : a romance : in three volumes"@en
  • "Ambrosio, or the monk : a romance. By M.G. Lewis, Esq. M.P. In three volumes"@en
  • "The Monk"@en
  • "The Monk"
  • "The monk: a romance ... The third edition"@en
  • "Il monaco"@it
  • "Il monaco"
  • "Calugarul : roman"
  • "Le moine : raconte par Antonin Artaud"
  • "Le Moine"
  • "The Monk : a romance, by M.G. Lewis"
  • "[The monk a romance. In three volumes. ...]"@en
  • "Le moine, traduit de l'anglais. [By Matthew Gregory Lewis. Translated by Jacques Marie Deschamps, Jean Baptiste Denis Desprès, Pierre Vincent Benoist and Piere Bernard Lamare.]"
  • "Le Moine. [The Monk.]"
  • "Seng lu"
  • "Seng lü"
  • "De monnik"
  • "The monk : a romance. In three volumes"@en
  • "The monk a romance. In three volumes"
  • "The monk a romance. In three volumes"@en
  • "The monk: a romance. [The preface signed: M. G. L., i.e. M. G. Lewis.]"@en
  • "The monk : original text, variant readings. And A note on the text / Louis F. Peck"
  • "El Fraile"
  • "O kalogeros (tou Liouis)"
  • "El monje"
  • "El monje"@es
  • "El monje"@ca
  • "僧侶"
  • "The monk : a romance in three volumes"@en
  • "The Monk a romance ; in 3 volumes"
  • "The monk. A romance. In three volumes. By M.G. Lewis"@en
  • "Xiu dao shi"
  • "The monk : A romance. In three volumes. By M. G. Lewis"
  • "Le moine : traduit de l'anglais"
  • "Seng lü (xia)"
  • "MONK"
  • "Le moine : roman"
  • "修道士 = The monk"
  • "The monk : a romance. In two volumes"@en
  • "Ambrosio, or the monk: a romance. By M. G. Lewis, Esq. M.P. In three volumes"@en
  • "Il monaco : traduzione di Mario Manzari : introduzione di Mirella Billi : con uno scritto di Samuel Taylor Coleridge"@it
  • "The monk : a romance Vol. 2"
  • "Le Moine de Lewis raconté par Antonin Artaud. [With plates.]"
  • "The monk a romance. In two volumes"
  • "The monk a romance. In two volumes"@en
  • "The monk ; and, The bravo of Venice"
  • "Le moine"
  • "Le moine"@en
  • "Seng lü : luo man ji"
  • "The monk : a romance. : In three volumes"
  • "Il frate"@it
  • "Il frate"
  • "The monk A romance. In three volumes. By M. G. Lewis : A romance. In three volumes. By M. G. Lewis"
  • "Le moine de Lewis raconté par Antonin Artaud"
  • "Der mönch : roman"
  • "The monk A romance. In three volumes. By M. G. Lewis"
  • "Le Moine : traduit de l'anglais"
  • ""Le moine" de Lewis : raconté par Antonin Artaud ; Lettres"
  • "The monk : a romance. By M.G. Lewis, Esq. M.P. In three volumes"@en
  • "The monk. Vol. 2"@en
  • "El fraile, ó Historia del padre Ambrosio y de la bella Antonia"
  • "The monk ; original text, variant readings, and "A note on the text""@en
  • "The monk: a romance ... In two volumes"@en
  • "K̲h̲ānqāh : duniyā kā sab se pihlā haibat nāk nāvil jo Angrezī adab men̲ ek sang-i mīl kī ḥais̲iyat rakhtā hai"
  • "僧侣 下）"
  • "Le Moine : roman"
  • "The monk, a romance, in 3 volumes, by m.g. lewis"@en
  • "The Monk : a romance"@en
  • "The Monk : a romance"
  • "The monk"
  • "The monk"@en
  • "The monk A romance"@en
  • "The monk : a romance. Vol. 2"@en
  • "The monk original text, variant readings, and "A note on the text""@en
  • "Mnich"
  • "Mnich"@pl
  • "Artaud's The monk"@en
  • "The monk: a romance. [The prefatory verses signed: M. G. L. i.e. Matthew Gregory Lewis.]"@en
  • "The monk. A romance. Edited with an introduction by Howard Anderson"@en
  • "Xiu dao shi = The monk"
  • "The monk. A romance. In three volumes. By M. G. Lewis"@en
  • "The monk : a romance ... in two volumes"@en
  • "Le Moine : [roman]"
  • "The monk: a romance. In two volumes"@en
  • "Alonzo den Tappre och skön imogine : Ballad"
  • "The monk a romance. In three volumes. By M.G. Lewis, Esq. M.P"@en
  • "The monk, a romance"@en
  • "The monk, a romance"
  • "Călugărul"
  • "The Monk. Matthew G. Lewis. Original text, variant readings, and "A Note on the text". Louis F. Peck. Introduction John Berryman"
  • "The Monk a romance. In three volumes"
  • "Le Moine de Lewis raconté par Antonin Artaud"
  • "Mnich : romans"@pl
  • "Mnich : romans"
  • "The monk : [novel]"@en
  • "The Monk a romance. in two volumes"
  • "El Monje"
  • "Der Mönch [The monk, dt.] Roman"
  • "Il monaco : romanzo"@it
  • "The Monk : [novel]"
  • ""Le moine""
  • "Der mönch"
  • "Il Monaco"@it
  • "僧侣 : 罗曼记"
  • "[The monk: a romance. In three volumes. ...]"@en
  • "The Monk: a romance. [Edited by F.R. Statham. With a biographical introduction and illustrations.]"@en
  • "The monk: a romance. By M.G. Lewis, Esq. M.P. In three volumes"@en
  • "Mnich : powieść"@pl
  • "The monk: a romance. In three volumes"
  • "The monk: a romance. In three volumes"@en
  • "The monk a romance"@en
  • "The monk a romance"
  • "The Monk : A Romance"
  • "The monk a romance. By M. G. Lewis, Esq. M.P. In three volumes"
  • "The monk A romance. In three volumes. By M. G. Lewis, Esq. M. P"
  • "修道士"
  • "The monk : A romance"
  • "ˆDer‰ Mönch"
  • "Le moine (de Lewis)"
  • "The monk ; a romance"
  • "The monk: a romance ... [The preface signed: M.G.L., i.e. M.G. Lewis]"@en
  • "The monk. A romance"@en
  • "The monk. Original text, variant readings, and "A note on the text" [by] Louis F. Peck. Introduction by John Berryman. [With a facsimile.]"@en
  • "El monje : novela gótica"@es
  • "El fraile"
  • "El fraile"@es
  • "Seng lü : Luo man ji"
  • "Seng lü (shang)"
  • "The Monk: a romance. [The preface signed: M.G.L., i.e. Matthew Gregory Lewis.]"@en
  • "The Monk ... Original text, variant readings, and 'A Note on the text' [by] Louis F. Peck. Introduction, John Berryman"@en
  • "僧侣 上）"
  • "The Monk Matthew G. Lewis ; Original text, variant readings, and a Note on the Text Louis F. Peck ; Introduction John Berryman"
  • "The monk. A romance. In three volumes"@en
  • "Le moine de Lewis"
  • "The monk and, the bravo of Venice"@en
  • "Der Mönch Roman"
  • "The monk a romance. By M.G. Lewis, Esq. M.P. In three volumes"
  • "The monk a romance. By M.G. Lewis, Esq. M.P. In three volumes"@en
  • "Le Moine ... : roman"
  • "The monk: a romance. [The preface signed: M.G.L., i.e. M.G. Lewis.]"
  • "The monk: a romance. [The preface signed: M.G.L., i.e. M.G. Lewis.]"@en
  • "The monk: a romance"
  • "The monk: a romance"@en
  • "The Monk, a romance"
  • "The Monk, a romance"@en
  • "Der Mönch : Roman"
  • "The Monk a Romance"@en
  • "Le Moine, de Lewis"
  • "Monakh"
  • "Le Moine : [the Monk]"
  • "The monk; a romance"@en
  • "The monk; a romance"
  • "The Monk: a romance. [By Matthew G. Lewis.]"@en
  • "Repetition : a novel"
  • "The monk. a romance. In three volumes. By M.G. Lewis"@en
  • "Monk"
  • "Monk"@en
  • "Le moine, traduit de l'anglais"
  • "The Monk 2"
  • "Le moine : Roman"
  • "Ambrosio, or the monk a romance. By M.G. Lewis, Esq. M.P. In three volumes"@en
  • "Ambrosio, or the monk a romance. By M.G. Lewis, Esq. M.P. In three volumes"
  • "The monk: a romance. [The prefatory verses signed: M.G.L. i.e. Matthew Gregory Lewis.]"
  • "Ambrosio, or the monk: a romance. By M.G. Lewis, Esq. M.P. In three volumes"@en
  • "Le moine : d'après le roman de Matthew G. Lewis"
  • "Ambrosio, or the monk a romance. By M. G. Lewis, Esq. M.P. In three volumes"
  • "僧侣"
  • "Mnich : romans grozy"@pl
  • "The Monk. A romance"@en
  • "Monk : original text, variant readings"@en
  • "The monk : a romance of the most intense interest, in one volume octavo"@en
  • "The Monk : a romance of the most intense interest"@en
  • "Le moine : romanzo"
  • "The monk: original text, variant readings, and ''A note on the text''"@en
  • "The monk : a romance ; in three volumes"
  • "Le Moine de Lewis"
  • "The monk A romance. In two volumes"
  • "Mnich; powieść"
  • "The Monk a romance"@en
  • "The monk : a romance"
  • "The monk : a romance"@en
  • "Călugărul : roman"

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