NovelGothic · 1796Study guide · no full textDemanding

The Monk

The novel that made gothic fiction scandalous. Lewis pushes to extremes — transgression, hypocrisy, damnation — and the reader feels the pull he warns against.

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Study guide

This work is still in copyright, so there is no full text on the page. What you get instead: the context, the cast, the ideas and the themes — enough to read it well, and to know exactly what to watch for in the first thirty pages.

The cast, in the Character Atlas →Literary devices →Where it sits in time →

Now read the first page with all of this in mind.

The notes here are the map; the book is the journey.

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