Monk. Anaconda. Venetian killer. Lewis M.G.

“shocking”, “provocative”, “sensational” - such epithets for two centuries have been accompanied by critics about the novel by the English writer Matthew Gregori Lewis “Monk”, who, upon the publication in the spring of 1796, became a bestseller and the reason for the loud public Scandal. The story of the Spanish monk-kapucin Ambrosio, the new Faust, the victims of the devilish intrigues and the destroyer of other people's lives-brought the twenty-year-old author the contradictory glory of the immoralist, the atheist and at the same time the creator of the Gothic novel-tragedy, who anticipated the plot collisions of romantic literature.

The present edition also included a variety of novels, which are as original creations of M.G. Lewis, and his translations or shifting books by German authors. These fascinating works, in which the master’s hand accurately guesses into Russian for the first time. Also for the first time in Russia, texts are accompanied by numerous illustrations of English, American and French artists of the 19th and early XX centuries.