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✍️ Matthew Lewis
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🏛 Oxford University Press 📅 2016 🌐 English 📔 Paperback 📐 Book ISBN: 9780198704454

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The Monk (1796) is a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror novel in English literature. It tells of the pious monk Ambrosio's descent into depravity, his passion leading to rape, blasphemy, black magic, incest, and murder. Its sensational story also reflects the terrors of the French Revolution.

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