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2 volumes (xxiv, 175; 162 pages), plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
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.
by William Beckford of Fonthill ; edited with a historical introduction and notes by Guy Chapman.
"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.
Cambridge : Printed at the University Press for Constable and Houghton Mifflin Co., 1929