# The Monk

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- Book: [The Monk](https://www.bookquiver.com/matthew-gregory-lewis/the-monk) ([The Monk.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/matthew-gregory-lewis/the-monk.md))
- Authors: [Matthew Gregory Lewis](https://www.bookquiver.com/matthew-gregory-lewis)
- Publisher: modern_library
- ISBN: 978-03-7575-916-1
- Pages: 400
- Published: 2002-04-09
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

When Matthew Lewis’s The Monk was published in 1796, readers were shocked by this gripping and horrific novel. Lewis’s story, which drove the House of Commons—of which he was a member—to...