Title: The Monk.
Genre: Fiction (Thriller & Suspense/Gothic/Horror).
Author(s): Matthew Gregory Lewis.
Price: $2.99 ($0.00 ebook (marked down) + $2.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $22.95.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.2 stars/105 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 3.8/18 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 234/15 hours and 22 minutes.
Narrator(s): Nigel Carrington.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Classics/T...3240724&sr=1-1.
Amazon URL (can get the whole Whispersync deal here): http://www.amazon.com/Monk-Matthew-G...the+monk+lewis.
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Book Description (Amazon):
In what is widely considered to be the first Gothic novel, a monk must resist a temptation that could consume his soul
Ambrosio has developed a reputation across Madrid for his piety and selflessness in his role as a monk. Left on the abbey’s doorstep as a child, Ambrosio took quickly to monastic life, and his fellow monks pronounced him a gift from the Virgin Mary. Despite his virtue, his status as the abbey’s favorite son is put in jeopardy with the arrival of Matilda, a woman with a terrible secret who disguises herself as a monk to be closer to Ambrosio.
A sensational Gothic horror novel that is as stunning to readers today as it was two hundred years ago, The Monk
is a shocking rumination of the nature of good and evil, and a morality tale that explicitly details the consequences of desire.
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