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The Monk
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1796
- Pages
- Pages 440
A monk climbs into the pulpit of a Capuchin chapel in Madrid, and every soul in the city agrees: no man alive is more virtuous than Ambrosio. Matthew Lewis wrote this novel at nineteen, and it reads like it, reckless, feverish, gleefully unafraid of where a good man's fall can go.
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