Monk: A Romance
Author: first_name: Matthew
last_name: Lewis
Language: English
Year: 1795

Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk: A Romance is a story of frustrated and unrequited desire between mentor and pupil mixed with elements of the supernatural. It includes several subplots: rape, torture and incest. It is the old story of the forces of good versus the forces of evil, except that in this one evil comes out ahead.<br /><br />

When The Monk was first published in 1795, it was received well by readers and reviewers causing a second edition to be printed the following year. But by the