Maria Monk (The Erotica Series)

While the below reviewers berate this book for containing blatant lies, it is a well-known hoax and of serious historical interest. It's a bit shocking that one reviewer actually believed the hoax -- but then again, perhaps his credulousness is understandable given the very real scandals of the modern Catholic Church. For an informative contrast, compare this book, entirely fabricated and written in the style of a cheap gothic novel, with the Boston Globe's very factual _Betrayal: The Crises in the Catholic Church_. It seems to me a positive sign that the recent real problems in the Church have resulted in the reviling of only the most likely actual criminals, rather than the wholesale and vicious anti-Catholic sentiment that came from the publication of Maria Monk.

I have this book published in 1836 by Maria Monk. It renders you sad and angry all at the same time. The senseless killing of infants and nuns is awful to say the least. This book gives it's readers a look into what life these nuns had to endure at the hands of the priests who ruled over them.