LEWIS MATTHEW-GREGORY

Ο ΚΑΛΟΓΕΡΟΣ
Υγρές, μελαγχολικές αυλές, φασματικοί πύργοι, ζοφερές προοπτικές, μοναστήρια όπου κατοικεί το Κακό, ψίθυροι και τρεμάμενες σκιές, πανέμορφες ηρωίδες που ακροβατούν στα όρια της τρέλας, δαιμονικοί χαρακτήρες που πουλάνε την ψυχή τους στον Εωσφόρο, αλλότρια, μυστικά πάθη, τρέλα, ποίηση... Το γοτθικό μυθιστόρημα σε όλο το ανατριχιαστικό του μεγαλείο είναι εδώ, με έναν ογκόλιθο τους είδους, που ξεπερνά σε ένταση, ρίγος, παλμό, φαντασία και αυτοαναφορική ειρωνεία το σύνολο της σύγχρονης «λογοτεχνίας τρόμου». (ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΙΑΣΗ ΣΤΟ ΟΠΙΣΘΟΦΥΛΛΟ ...
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(P/B) THE MONK
'He was deaf to the murmurs of conscience, and resolved to satisfy his desires at any price.' The Monk (1796) is a sensational story of temptation and depravity, a masterpiece of Gothic fiction and the first horror novel in English literature. The respected monk Ambrosio, the Abbot of a Capuchin monastery in Madrid, is overwhelmed with desire for a young girl; once having abandoned his monastic vows he begins a terrible descent into immorality and violence. His appalling fall from grace embraces blasphemy, black magic, torture, rape, and ...
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(P/B) THE MONK
Prepare to be shocked. This novel, written in 1796, is a Gothic festival of sex, magic and ghastly, ghostly violence rarely seen in literature. The Monk is remarkably modern in style and tells a breathless tale of temptation, imprisonment and betrayal. Matthew Lewis recounts the downfall of Ambrosio, the holier-than-thou monk seduced within the walls of a Madrid abbey until he heads for the utter corruption of the soul. Meanwhile, two sets of young lovers are thwarted and the reader thrills to pursuits through the woods by bandits and is c...
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A masterpiece of the Gothic genre, The Monk tells the story of the Capuchin friar Ambrosio and his fall from grace through desire, greed and lust. Favourably reviewed at first, the novel was later so widely and raucously denounced for its perceived licentiousness, blasphemy and corrupting influence that Lewis had to remove controversial passages from future editions. Unsurprisingly, amidst this furore, the book was immensely popular with the reading public. Suffused with eroticism, and focusing on the corrupting influence of power, The Mon...
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JOURNAL OF A WEST INDIA PROPRIETOR
Every man of humanity must wish that slavery, even in its best and most mitigated form, had never found a legal sanction, and must regret that its system is now so incorporated with the welfare of Great Britain as well as of Jamaica, as to make its extirpation an absolute impossibilitiy, without the certainty of producing worse mischiefs than the one which we annihilate. Matthew Lewis is best remembered as the author of the sensational Gothic novel The Monk (1796). He was also a slave-owner, inheriting two large plantations and visiting Ja...
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