Written by Matthew Lewis During a short period of ten short weeks When He was just nineteen, "The Monk" Proved to be a controversial novel at the Time That It Was Written. Faith, deception, loyalty, sorcery, murder, Satanism, incest, rape, ghosts, and the Inquisition gave the novel the popularity Retained It has up to today. Even though icts stud made the controversial novel When It Was published in 1796 to the point Where It got held-to be blasphemous and resulted to censorship, Lewis nevertheless Gained in popularity. The story is about Ambrosio Basically, Who Was found as an infant at the doors of the abbey, stirring talks That He Was a God-sent child. He Grew Up to Become an ostensibly pious and deeply revered Abbot of the Capuchin monastery in Madrid, made in holiness That Aroused the resentment of the devil Who Decides to plot His fall. The devil plotted the fall through the working of a young female and disguised Who Became a novice under the tutelage of Ambrioso, the immaculate monk. Ambrioso's fall is plotted through out the later stages of the novel as His fight with the deep passions de son body, the machinations of the devil and his Attempts at redemption. Anti-Catholic in nature this is classic Gothic Perhaps the best ict in kind. I am sure the author enjoyed every moment while writing it Because He Was the story flowed all the way through to the end. A classic recommended. Also recommended: THE USURPER AND OTHER STORIES, THE MYSTERIES OF Udolpho, DISCIPLES OF FORTUNE, THE UNION MOUJIK
