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Matthew Gregory Lewis was born in London of a wealthy family which provided him with an excellent education. At nineteen he was appointed attache to the Britis embassy at the Hague, and before he was twenty he had written "Ambrosio: or, The Monk", the publication of which made him both famous and infamous--praised by some but considered immoral by others. A follower of Radcliffe, Lewis was also influenced by the German Gothic tradition which concentrated on explicit details of horror.
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(1974)
Ghosts, Castles, and Victims
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(1796)
The Monk
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Four Gothic Novels
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Journal of a West India Proprietor: Kept during a Residence in the Island of Jamaica (Oxford World's Classics)
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The Castle Spectre (Large Print)
