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Title: The Monk (Oxford World's Classics) by Stephen King, Matthew Gregory Lewis ISBN: 0-19-515136-4 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.36 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Ultimate Gothic Classic
Comment: Matthew Lewis wrote "The Monk" in ten short weeks at the age of nineteen. Immediately the subject of controversy upon its publication in 1796, Lewis was prosecuted and subsequent editions of the book were heavily censored. Coleridge described it as blasphemous, "a romance, which if a parent saw it in the hands of a son or daughter, he might reasonably turn pale." Yet, "The Monk" was so popular that its author became a minor celebrity-coming to be known as "Monk" Lewis--and Sir Walter Scott prounounced that "it seemed to create an epoch in our literature." And whether "The Monk" truly created an epoch in English literature, or merely marked the early apogee of a genre, it stands as a stunning example of the Gothic novel.
"The Monk" tells the story of Ambrosio, the ostensibly pious and deeply revered Abbot of the Capuchin monastery in Madrid, and his dark fall from grace. It is a novel which unravels, at times, like the "Arabian Nights", stories within stories, a series of digressions, the plot driven by love and lust, temptations and spectres, and, ultimately, rape, murder and incest. It is sharply anti-Catholic, if not anti-clerical, in tone, Ambrosio and most of its other religious characters being profane, murderous, self-centered hypocrites cloaked in displays of public piety. And while it sometimes seems critical of superstition, "The Monk" is replete with Mephistophelian bargains, supernatural events, appartions, and spectres, as well as entombment and dark forebodings of mystery and evil. It is, in short, a stunningly entertaining, albeit typically heavy-handed, Gothic novel, perhaps the ultimate classic of the genre.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Ultimate Gothic Classic
Comment: Matthew Lewis wrote "The Monk" in ten short weeks at the age of nineteen. Immediately the subject of controversy upon its publication in 1796, Lewis was prosecuted and subsequent editions of the book were heavily censored. Coleridge described it as blasphemous, "a romance, which if a parent saw it in the hands of a son or daughter, he might reasonably turn pale." Yet, "The Monk" was so popular that its author became a minor celebrity-coming to be known as "Monk" Lewis--and Sir Walter Scott prounounced that "it seemed to create an epoch in our literature." And whether "The Monk" truly created an epoch in English literature, or merely marked the early apogee of a genre, it stands as a stunning example of the Gothic novel.
"The Monk" tells the story of Ambrosio, the ostensibly pious and deeply revered Abbot of the Capuchin monastery in Madrid, and his dark fall from grace. It is a novel which unravels, at times, like the "Arabian Nights", stories within stories, a series of digressions, the plot driven by love and lust, temptations and spectres, and, ultimately, rape, murder and incest. It is sharply anti-Catholic, if not anti-clerical, in tone, Ambrosio and most of its other religious characters being profane, murderous, self-centered hypocrites cloaked in displays of public piety. And while it sometimes seems critical of superstition, "The Monk" is replete with Mephistophelian bargains, supernatural events, appartions, and spectres, as well as entombment and dark forebodings of mystery and evil. It is, in short, a stunningly entertaining, albeit typically heavy-handed, Gothic novel, perhaps the ultimate classic of the genre.
Rating: 5
Summary: The monk
Comment: a delightfully horrific, goth masterpiece that every twisted mind should own.
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Title: The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World's Classics) by Ann Ward Radcliffe, Bonamy Dobree, Terry Castle ISBN: 0192825232 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin, Douglas Grant, Chris Baldick ISBN: 0192835920 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story (OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS) by Horace Walpole, Lewis. W. S., E. J. Clery, W. S. Lewis ISBN: 0192834401 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, The Vampyre by E. F. Bleiler, Horace Walpole, William Beckford, John Polidori ISBN: 0486212327 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1966 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Romance of the Forest (Oxford World's Classics) by Ann Ward Radcliffe, Chloe Chard ISBN: 0192837133 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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