NMLP P-036113 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

The Monk: A Romance

Matthew Gregory Lewis · J. Bell (London) · 1796

Emboldened by the novel's succes de scandale, Lewis put his name to a second edition later the same year, before public outcry over its content pushed him toward expurgating the text in subsequent editions

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-036113 for "The Monk: A Romance" by Matthew Gregory Lewis (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036113, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).