The Monk
By: Matthew Lewis ; edited with an introduction by Howard Anderson.
Contributors: Anderson, Howard.
Series: The World's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
Subjects: 18th Century Fiction; Gothic Novels
First sentence: SCARCELY HAD THE Abbey-Bell tolled for five minutes, and already was the Church of the Capuchins thronged with Auditors.
Description: " .... a violent tale of ambition, murder and incest, set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid." (Publisher's blurb.)
Notes: First published by Oxford University Press, 1973. First issued as a World's Classics paperback in 1980. This work was originally published in 1796.

Bibliography, p xxv-xxvi.