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A masterpiece of gothic fiction, The Monk is a cautionary story of madness, horror, lust, and despair. Dad Ambrosio, the most pious and venerated monk in every of This town, is placed as a paragon of virtue. But after 30 years of study and prayer, evil thoughts commence to permeate his mind. As two plots cleverly converge, torture, murder, incest, rape, poison, and magic prevail, sustained by an luxury in the writing of the 19-year-old Matthew Lewis. The reserve was banned after its preliminary publication in 1796, but later captured the attention of Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with Coleridge naming it "the offspring of no common genius".
