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Melmoth the Wanderer
Charles Robert Maturin
1820
The Monk
Matthew Gregory Lewis · 1796
385 pages
Ambrosio, a celebrated monk in Madrid, is admired for his apparent virtue until a novice leads him into pride, desire and crime. Around him runs the legend of a sorcerer, and the story follows the abbot's fall from purity into a bargain he cannot undo.
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Gothic, Forbidden Love, Faustian Bargain, Villain Protagonist, Femme Fatale
Content warnings: sexual violence
