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Tales of Wonder
Matthew Gregory Lewis
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R897
Discovery Miles 8 970
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Matthew 'Monk' Lewis (1775 1818) is best known as a writer of plays
and 'Gothic' novels such as The Monk (from which he acquired his
nickname). On the death of his father in 1812, he inherited a large
fortune, including estates in Jamaica. He spent four months there
in 1815, during which time much of this Journal of a West India
Proprietor was written. He became interested in the condition of
the slaves on his estates, and on returning to England made contact
with William Wilberforce and other abolitionists. The improvements
he made on his own estates were unpopular with other landholders,
but foreshadowed the reforms of the 1830s, when the Journal was
published. He revisited the island in 1817, but died of yellow
fever on the way home. S. T. Coleridge regarded the Journal as
Lewis' best work, and the one most likely to be of lasting value.
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Tales of Wonder (Paperback)
Matthew Gregory Lewis; Edited by Douglass H. Thomson
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R860
Discovery Miles 8 600
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Ships in 12 - 19 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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