Fair enough, Rara. I initially produced this video as an introduction to The Monk for students at my "From Romance to the Novel" course, and I wanted to avoid spoilers. The problem, as you point out, is that the video ended up not providing anything like an analysis of the book itself.

I don't know audiobook versions, but the novel is eminently readable!

H.G.Wells called his early Sci Fi Scientific Romances before Science Fiction was used

Valeu pelos elogios! Tem sido difícil achar tempo para fazer mais vídeos, mas quando a oportunidade surgir, faço, sim!

Thanks for the encouragement!

No. There's a rape scene, but it's not told very graphically.

@@mattconner1955 but is it a lot?

Hi Mutiara; apologies for my tardiness in responding. This novel is noticeably more violent than other Gothic novels from the times. Compared to eighteenth-century pornography, however, it is much more euphemistic and indirect. There is a rape scene, which is described in vague terms, without graphic representation. Students of mine in the past have found that scene shocking. But there is nothing in The Monk to match the explicit sexual violence to be found in the works of the Marquis de Sade, who admired Lewis. In fact, The Monk may seem well behaved if compared to popular movies and series today.

Hey is the novel has a lot of porn scene? Because i read the review from goodreads it has rape scene in it

Hey Luiz. I don't have this account set to send me notifications when people post comments, so apologies for my tardiness in responding. The distinction between "novel" and "romance" is unique to English, and it's a feature of English literary history. In French, for example, the two genres are called "roman," while in Portuguese they are both called "romance." In order to distinguish between the two genres, some Brazilian translators have adopted the convention of rendering "novel" as "romance" and "romance" as "estória romanesca". But that's not a colloquial distinction by any means.

@@rogermaioli Hum! That is very interesting and it solves a long discussion I had in the past with my wife!

Entails are very old, dating back all the way to the fourteenth century; strict settlements (the type of entail Austen has in mind) were more recent. They first came into use in the sixteenth century. The principle of "coverture" determined that a woman's property would pass on to her husband upon their marriage. But there were all sorts of limiting that by means of a marriage settlement. It was possible, for example, for the woman's family to require that the property would pass to their children rather than to her husband, which was a way of preventing the husband from disposing of it or keeping it for himself in the (uncommon) case of a divorce.