Author:Matthew Lewis
With an essay by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
'He now saw himself stained with the most loathed and monstrous sins, the object of universal execration ... doomed to perish in tortures the most severe'
Shocking, erotic and violent, The Monk is the story of Ambrosio, torn between his spiritual vows and the temptations of physical pleasure. His internal battle leads to sexual obsession, rape and murder, yet this book also contains knowing parody of its own excesses as well as social comedy. Written by Matthew Lewis when he was only nineteen, it was a ground-breaking novel in the Gothic Horror genre and spawned hundreds of imitators, drawn in by its mixture of bloodshed, sex and scandal.
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One of the best and funniest English authors alive
—— IndependentLike Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift he is a satirist of enormous talent... incredibly funny... compulsively readable
—— The TimesHe would be amusing in any form and his spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction
—— Mail on SundayStunning
—— The New YorkerTakes us into the heart of the Hasidic community in New York, where two Hungarian-Romanian Jewish children orphaned during the barbarity of the Second World War are set to begin new lives
—— Elmore Leonard , Glasgow Sunday HeraldFascinating... Offers a glimpse into the real world of Hasidic life
—— Kerstin HogeOutstanding novel
—— Benjamin Evans , Sunday Telegraph (Seven)Using the language of the scriptures, Markovits depicts religion’s potential for both beauty and cruelty, and the inevitability of transgression even in the most devout life
—— Maria Crawford , Financial TimesThe writing is stunning, the execution flawless and the plot utterly gripping (4 stars)
—— Helen Cullen , StylistAn unusual, beautifully written novel
—— The LadyA bittersweet rumination on first love ... The language soars, full of the beauty of nature and the sadness of loss
—— Marie ClaireBanville perfectly captures the spirit of adolescence, the body yearning for sexual experience, the mind blurring eroticism and emotion ... Banville is a Nabokovian artist, his prose so rich, poetic and packed with startling imagery that reading it is akin to gliding regally through a lake of praline: it's a slow, stately process, delicious and to be savoured ... This is a luminous breathtaking work
—— Independent on SundayAncient Light also bears resemblance to Lolita that extend beyond the obvious hallmark ecstatic prose..different periods of his life blending into a single meditation of breathtaking beauty and profundity on love and loss and death, the final page of which brought tears.
—— The Financial TimesA beautifully written tale of youthful passion
—— Good HousekeepingA novel about sexual awakening and the tricks that memory plays. Banville's lushly gorgeous prose enhances a mood of brooding passion in a place of secrets
—— The IA sumptuous novel. Read it for the sentences and smarts, and for the copious sexy parts
—— Richard Ford , Guardian, Books of the YearEverything I want from a love story: sexy, convincing, baffling, funny, sad and unforgettable
—— Juliet Nicholson , Evening Standard, "Books of the Year"Banville's exquisitely written novel unravels the deceptions of memory with wit and pathos
—— Telegraph
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