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A quickly written book from early in lewis s career in one letter he claimed to have written it in ten weeks, but other correspondence suggests that he had at least started it, or something similar, a couple of years earlier, it was published before he turned twenty. It is the old story of the forces of good versus the forces of evil, except that in this one evil comes out ahead. A romance is a story of frustrated and unrequited desire between mentor and pupil mixed with elements of the supernatural. The monk by matthew lewis, free pdf, ebook global grey. Set in spain and with a strong presence of the inquisition always in the background, all the elements are present dark sinister places, cloaked figures, superstition, drama and evil by the ton. The storys violence and sexual content made it one of the eras bestselling and most influential novels. In what is widely considered to be the first gothic novel, a monk must resist a. Free download or read online the invention of wings pdf epub book.

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