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Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775 — 1818) was best known as the playwright and poet of the Byron and Shelley circle. However, the real fame was brought to him by the novel «The Monk», written in his youth and became a bestseller and the cause of a loud public scandal. «The Monk» is one of the four great books of the first wave of «Gothic» literature, which had a direct impact on the «Italian» A. Radcliffe, «Elixirs of Satan» by E. T. A. Hoffmann and «Melmoth the Wanderer» by C. R. Maturin, Brother Ambrosio, a devout Spanish monk known for the power of his sermons, finds himself unable to resist his passion for the beautiful Matilda. But under the guise of a girl, an insidious demon, sent by Satan himself, appeared to the monk in order not only to tempt the righteous, but to turn him into a great sinner, violating all God’s and human laws. And now Ambrosio is faced with a painful choice: to succumb to the temptation of Darkness or to remain faithful to the difficult, but righteous path? …
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