Vathek, with the episodes of Vathek /
The novel chronicles the fall from power of the Caliph Vathek (a fictionalized version of the historical Al-Wathiq), who renounces Islam and engages with his mother, Carathis, in a series of licentious and deplorable activities designed to gain him supernatural powers. At the end of the novel, inste...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | French |
| Language Notes: | Introduction in English. |
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Cambridge :
Printed at the University Press for Constable and Company & Houghton Mifflin Company,
1929.
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| Summary: | The novel chronicles the fall from power of the Caliph Vathek (a fictionalized version of the historical Al-Wathiq), who renounces Islam and engages with his mother, Carathis, in a series of licentious and deplorable activities designed to gain him supernatural powers. At the end of the novel, instead of attaining these powers, Vathek descends into a hell ruled by the demon Eblis where he is doomed to wander endlessly and speechlessly. --Wikipedia.com. |
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| Item Description: | "This edition is limited to 1000 copies." The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | 2 volumes (xxiv, 175; 162 pages), plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm Also issued online. |