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Tales of Wonder
Matthew Gregory Lewis
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R833
Discovery Miles 8 330
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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"A masterpiece of the Gothic genre, The Monk tells the story of the
Capuchin friar Ambrosio and his fall from grace through desire,
greed and lust. Favourably reviewed at first, the novel was later
so widely and raucously denounced for its perceived licentiousness,
blasphemy and corrupting influence that Lewis had to remove
controversial passages from future editions. Unsurprisingly, amidst
this furore, the book was immensely popular with the reading
public. Suffused with eroticism, and focusing on the corrupting
influence of power, The Monk pioneered a shocking new form of
Gothic novel, where elements such as mob violence, incest and
brutal murder replaced the gentler horrors of earlier practitioners
of the genre."
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Tales of Wonder (Paperback)
Matthew Gregory Lewis; Edited by Douglass H. Thomson
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R813
Discovery Miles 8 130
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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In the late eighteenth century, Matthew Gregory "Monk" Lewis, a
notorious author of lurid Gothic novels and plays, began to gather
this collection of horror ballads. Including original and
traditional works, translations and adaptations, and even
burlesques of the Gothic, this "hobgoblin repast," as Lewis called
it, brings together a fascinating assortment of works. Contributors
include Lewis, the young Walter Scott, William Taylor of Norwich,
John Leyden, and Robert Southey. Appendices contain selections from
Tales of Terror (1801), a text long intertwined with Lewis's
collection; information on Scott's An Apology for Tales of Terror
(1799); and parodies and reviews of Lewis's particular brand of
Gothic poetry.
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