The Monk

Complete and unabridged, with 33 full-page plates by Francisco Goya, Dirck van der Bergen and Caravaggio. A revered abbot of Madrid, famous for never having sinned, is approached by a novice who is not what he seems. Lewis was nineteen and a junior diplomat when he wrote it in ten weeks; the book made him notorious, forced a bowdlerized later edition, and drew a public attack from Coleridge, who c...