The Monk cover art

The Monk

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

The Monk

By: Matthew Lewis
Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton, Georgina Sutton
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £23.99

Buy Now for £23.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

A masterpiece of gothic fiction, The Monk is a cautionary tale of madness, horror, lust, and despair. Father Ambrosio, the most pious and venerated monk in all of Madrid, is held as a paragon of virtue. But after 30 years of study and prayer, evil thoughts begin to permeate his mind.

As two plots cleverly converge, torture, murder, incest, rape, poison, and magic prevail, sustained by an elegance in the writing of the 19-year-old Matthew Lewis.

The book was banned upon its initial publication in 1796, but later caught the attention of Lord Byron and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with Coleridge naming it "the offspring of no common genius".

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

Public Domain (P)2017 Naxos AudioBooks Classics Genre Fiction Horror Literary Fiction Fiction Scary

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Melmoth the Wanderer cover art
The Monk cover art
The Mysteries of Udolpho cover art
A Sicilian Romance cover art
Zofloya, or the Moor cover art
Uncle Silas cover art
Basil cover art
The Mummy! cover art
Jezebel’s Daughter cover art
Tristram Shandy cover art
Hide and Seek cover art
Hyperion cover art
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner cover art
The Bloody Chamber cover art
The Edgar Allan Poe Complete Works Collection - Stories, Poems, Novels, and Essays cover art
Paradise Lost cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
If you love 18th and 19th century novels as I do, this is a must to add to the collection. Engaging, enthralling and intruiging, a wonderful slice of fantasy, occult, romance and melodrama from the 1700s. NB as always does an excellent job in bringing the story to life. Highly enjoyable

Wonderful

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Love this. It was a joy to listen to. A bit confusing with some of the story

Grate 10/10

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This book is excellent. Truly. Matthew Lewis was just nineteen when he wrote this, what were you doing at nineteen? I was trying to figure out how to open bras with one hand, and deciding on the best excuse to use when calling in sick at my job and not get fired. Silly me; I could have been writing one of the greatest Gothic Novels of all time.
I could explain about the plot, the temptation and corruption of Ambrosio; or the subplot, the unjust fate of Agnes. Rather, I'll avoid giving spoilers and just say that anyone who thinks eighteenth century literature is boring needs to read this.
The narration is perfect. Highly recommend.

Wow!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Absolute page-turner, full of conflicting styles, bad taste, bizarre sense of humour and events that are not probable or even possible ))

Absolute page-turner

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A fantastic story with a great, but not totally unexpected twist at the end.
Great narration by Nicholas Boulton as usual, although I do wish he’d pronounce the ‘h’ in hotel! The only things that let it down at all is the stanzas, particularly those that are sung!!! Completely unnecessary & don’t really bear any relevance to the story. Fast foreword through these & you’ll enjoy it

A brilliant piece of true gothic horror

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I flew through this in around a week. Very impressed with the narration and the performer's ability to take on different characters one after the other. Highly recommend.

Excellent book and excellent performance

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.