A Monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, the unconditioning of mind and body in favor of the realization of one's true nature, and does so living either alone or with any number of like-minded people, whilst always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose....
Robert Monks -- American entrepreneur, politician, and corporate activist
Edward "Monks" Leeford is a character in the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. He is actually the criminally-inclined half-brother of Oliver Twist , but he hides his identity.... " -- a character from Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens, Royal Society of Arts , pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English people novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous Reform movement.... ' Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist is Charles Dickens second novel. The book was originally published in Bentley's Miscellany as a Serial , in monthly installments that began appearing in the month of February 1837 and continued through April 1839, originally intended to form part of Dickens' serial The Mudfog Papers....
