The Monk

by Matthew Gregory Lewis

Matthew Lewis's notorious Gothic novel, a lurid, gripping tale of a revered monk undone by temptation, in which piety collapses into obsession, corruption and supernatural terror.

At a glance Scandalous in its day and still startling now, The Monk plunges its readers into a… What it's about Matthew Lewis's novel centres on Ambrosio, a celebrated and outwardly… When temptation enters his cloistered world, his rigid virtue proves brittle, and he is… Lewis piles on incident and horror with reckless energy, driving toward a dark and…

Matthew Lewis's novel centres on Ambrosio, a celebrated and outwardly saintly monk in Madrid, admired for his piety and eloquence.