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The Monk
By (Author) Matthew Lewis
Introduction by Hugh Thomas
Random House USA Inc
Modern Library Inc
15th April 2002
United States
General
Fiction
Classic fiction: general and literary
823.6
Paperback
400
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 19mm
468g
This edition is set from the 1796 first edition and includes newly commissioned endnotes.
The whole work is distinguished by the variety and impressiveness of its incidents; and the author every-where discovers an imagination rich, powerful, and fervid. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hugh Thomas (Lord Thomas of Swynnerton) is widely known for his work on the history of Spain, including his epic masterpiece The Spanish Civil War, available as a Modern Library Paperback.