The Monk

By Matthew Lewis

Release : 2013-05-29

Genre : Romance, Books

Kind : ebook

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Gothic novel The Monk (1796) written when Lewis was 19, was influenced by the leading Gothic novelist, Ann Radcliffe, and also by stronger contemporary German Gothic literature. Its emphasis on horror rather than romance, its violence, and its eroticism made it avidly read, though universally condemned.

The Monk

By Matthew Lewis

Release : 2013-05-29

Genre : Romance, Books

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
Gothic novel The Monk (1796) written when Lewis was 19, was influenced by the leading Gothic novelist, Ann Radcliffe, and also by stronger contemporary German Gothic literature. Its emphasis on horror rather than romance, its violence, and its eroticism made it avidly read, though universally condemned.

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