The Monastery

15 hrs. 41 min.

Language Russian

Author Walter Scott

Narrator Yuliya Tarkhova

Description

We present to you the historical novel by the famous English writer Walter Scott, “The Monastery” (1820), together with the novel “The Abbey,” which makes up a cycle titled “Tales from the Benedictine Sources.” The action of the book takes place in Scotland in the mid-sixteenth century. It depicts dark, remote Scotland in tragic times of military defeat—and at the same time, spiritual renewal.

In this novel, the only one among Walter Scott’s novels in which the supernatural is one of the main characters, White Lady Avenel is a ghost introduced by the author into the narrative. Besides the ghost, the main figures are two brothers—one a monk and the other the regent’s assistant—and Lady Avenel, who, together with her mother, had been expelled from the castle in childhood.