Vathek, an Arabian Tale
Author : William Beckford
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Page : 134 pages
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Author : William Beckford
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Page : 134 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
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Author : William Beckford
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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 1834
Category : Arab countries
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Author : William Beckford
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Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 1836
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Author : William Beckford
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 2024-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385349958
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Author : ARABIAN TALE.
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 1809
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Author : William Beckford
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 1854
Category : English fiction
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Author : William Beckford
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Page : 356 pages
File Size : 20,8 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Collections
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Author : William Beckford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 2013-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781481929004
In this classic and timeless novel, we encounter the rise and fall of the once mighty Vathek. The story chronicles the fall from power of the Caliph Vathek (a fictionalized version of the historical Al-Wathiq), who engages with his mother, Carathis, in a series of licentious and deplorable activities designed to gain him supernatural powers. Perverse and grotesque comedy alternates with scenes of magnificence and beauty in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to damnation. In his attempts to reach the unreachable, Vathek, instead of attaining mighty powers, descends into a hell ruled by the demon Eblis. Unable to escape from the deeps of the earth, Vathek is doomed to wander endlessly. Visit ladyvalkyrie.com for more Classics as well as for Other titles and Collections/Series of books!
Author : William William Beckford
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Page : 65 pages
File Size : 29,55 MB
Release : 2017-07-30
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ISBN : 9781521973905
How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Vathek, An Arabian Tale by William Beckford Vathek is a Gothic novel written by William Beckford. It was composed in French beginning in 1782, and then translated into English by Reverend Samuel Henley in which form it was first published in 1786 without Beckford's name as An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript, claiming to be translated directly from Arabic. The first French edition, titled simply as Vathek, was published in December 1786 (postdated 1787). In the twentieth century some editions include The Episodes of Vathek (Vathek et ses épisodes), three related tales intended by Beckford to be so incorporated, but omitted from the original edition and published separately long after his death. Vathek capitalised on the 18th (and early 19th) 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.
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