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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beckford, William, 1760-1844 (Author)
Other Authors: Chapman, Guy (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:French
Language Notes:Introduction in English.
Published: Cambridge : Printed at the University Press for Constable and Company & Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929.
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