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    The Monk
    The Monk
    The Monk
    Audiobook14 hours

    The Monk

    Written by Matthew Lewis

    Narrated by Nicholas Boulton

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    The Monk is a cautionary tale of madness, horror, lust and despair. Father Ambrosia, the most pious and venerated monk in all of Madrid is held as a paragon of virtue. But after thirty years of study and prayer, evil thoughts begin to permeate through his mind, and he soon gives in to every deviant temptation; torture, murder, incest, rape, poison and magic, Ambrosia falls from the highest of grace to the darkest of depths.

    The book was banned upon its initial release in 1796, but later caught the attention of Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with Coleridge naming it 'the offspring of no common genius'.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateMar 17, 2017
    ISBN9781781980453
    Author

    Matthew Lewis

    Dr Matthew Lewis is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Until September 2013, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Centre for War Studies at University College Dublin. He completed his PhD at Queen's University Belfast in 2011.

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    • 3/5
      The gothic novel becomes a horror novel. This ultimate gothic novel truly has everything from rape, murder, incest to sorcery, torture,a drug that mimics death, ghosts and to the conjuring of Satan himself!

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    • 4/5
      Very dramatic, maybe a bit too long but well narrated!
    • 5/5
      Amazing book and excellent narration! I enjoyed every word and every second!