Book description
Noble and devout, Ambrosio is the abbot of a Spanish monastery and
spends his days in prayer and preaching. However his monastery is
harboring a malevolent force in the form of a young monk called
Rosario. Rosario attaches himself to the abbot and then one fateful
night reveals that he is in fact a beautiful woman in disguise. From
this moment on Ambrosio finds himself seduced into a lurid maelstrom
of sin and vice that it is impossible for him to resist.
INCLUDES THE BRAVO OF VENICE
Matthew Lewis was born on 9 July 1775 in London. He was educated at
Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He later worked as an
attaché to the British Embassy in Holland and an MP. When he was
nineteen years old he wrote
The Monk
, which was published in 1796 and became a huge popular success, leading
to the author being nicknamed 'Monk Lewis'. Lewis also wrote plays,
poetry, translations and a memoir. He died on 14 May 1818 on a voyage
home from the estate he had inherited in Jamaica.
