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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Printed at the University Press for Constable and Company & Houghton Mifflin Company,
1929.
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by Beckford, William, 1760-1844
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