The Monk: A Romance by M. G. Lewis
"The Monk: A Romance" by M. G. Lewis is a Gothic novel published in 1796. It follows Ambrosio, a virtuous monk who succumbs to forbidden desires when a mysterious figure infiltrates his monastery. His fall from grace spirals into a dark tale of lust, murder, and demonic pacts. Scandalous for its sexually explicit content and themes of rape and incest, it became the most controversial Gothic novel of the 18th century, shocking
readers while achieving immense popularity and influencing the horror genre. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Read or download for free
| How to read | Url | Size | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read now! | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/601.html.images | 838 kB | |||
| EPUB3 (E-readers incl. Send-to-Kindle) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/601.epub3.images | 400 kB | |||
| EPUB (older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/601.epub.images | 402 kB | |||
| EPUB (no images, older E-readers) | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/601.epub.noimages | 393 kB | |||
| Kindle | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/601.kf8.images | 674 kB | |||
| older Kindles | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/601.kindle.images | 659 kB | |||
| Plain Text UTF-8 | https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/601.txt.utf-8 | 809 kB | |||
| Download HTML (zip) | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/601/pg601-h.zip | 380 kB | |||
| There may be more files related to this item. | |||||
Similar Books
About this eBook
| Author | Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Monk: A Romance |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monk |
| Credits | Charles Keller. HTML version by Al Haines. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 69.4 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Horror tales |
| Subject | Gothic fiction |
| Subject | Monks -- Fiction |
| Subject | Madrid (Spain) -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 601 |
| Release Date | Jul 1, 1996 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jan 8, 2023 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 3463 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! | |