Vathek, an Arabian Tale
Author : William Beckford
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Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 1834
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Vathek: an Arabian tale. (Memoir. By William North.-The Amber Witch ... Edited ... by W. Meinhold ... Translated from the German by E. A. Friedländer.)
Author : William Beckford
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 29,1 MB
Release : 1856
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The History of the Caliph Vathek
Author : William Beckford
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Page : 230 pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 1868
Category : Arab countries
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The History of the Caliph Vathek
Author : William Beckford
Publisher : London : [s.n.]
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 20,42 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Fiction
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No words can describe the amazement of the courtiers when they beheld this rude merchant withstand the encounter unshocked. They all fell prostrate with their faces on the ground to avoid the risk of their lives, and continued in the same abject posture till the Caliph exclaimed in a furious tone, "Up, cowards! seize the miscreant! see that he be committed to prison and guarded by the best of my soldiers!
The History of the Caliph Vathek
Author : William Beckford
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 2024-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385349966
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The History of Caliph Vathek
Author : William Beckford
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387017170
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
The History of the Caliph Vathek
Author : William Beckford
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Page : 214 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 1888
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The history of the caliph Vathek. Pr. verbatim from 1st ed., with the original prefaces and notes by Henley
Author : William Beckford
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Page : 228 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 1868
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The History of Caliph Vathek
Author : William Beckford
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Page : 54 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 2017-07-10
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ISBN : 9781546982661
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A story that paints neither man nor outward nature as they are, but reproduces with happy vivacity the luxuriant imagery and wild incidents of an Arabian tale. There is a ghost of a moral in the story of a sensual Caliph going to the bad, as represented by his final introduction to the Halls of Eblis. But the enjoyment given by the book reflects the real enjoyment that the author had in writing it--enjoyment great enough to cause it to be written at a heat, in one long sitting, without flagging power.
The History of the Caliph Vathek
Author : William Beckford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2018-02-07
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ISBN : 9781985143951
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Vathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek) is a Gothic novel written by William Beckford. Vathek capitalised on the eighteenth- (and early nineteenth-) century obsession with all things Oriental (see Orientalism), which was inspired by Antoine Galland's translation of The Arabian Nights (itself retranslated, into English, in 1708). Beckford was also influenced by similar works from the French writer Voltaire. His originality lay in combining the popular Oriental elements with the Gothic stylings of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). The result stands alongside Walpole's novel and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) in the first rank of early Gothic fiction.
