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Vathek

Vathek more books like this

by William Beckford

Vathek (1786), originally written in French, remains one of the strangest eighteenth-century novels and one of the most difficult to classify. Perverse and grotesque comedy alternates with scenes of 'oriental' magnificence and evocative beauty in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to superb damnation among the subterranean ...

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Episodes of Vathek

Episodes of Vathek more books like this

by William Beckford

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Vathek and Other Stories: A William Beckford Reader

Vathek and Other Stories: A William Beckford Reader more books like this

by William Beckford, Malcolm Jack

Beckford's Gothic novel, "Vathek", an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was twenty-one. It is the story of Caliph Vathek, whose eye can kill at a glance, who makes a pact with the Devil, Eblis. This edition includes an introductory essay on William Beckford (1760-1844), encompassing the development of genre, the ...

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Vathek, with the episodes of Vathek

by William Beckford, Guy Chapman

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Vathek: Nonsuch Classics

Vathek: Nonsuch Classics more books like this

by William Beckford

Written in 1782 by the near-legendary hedonist William Beckford when he was only twenty-one, Vathek, or the History of the Caliph Vathek, was the first Oriental-Gothic horror novel in English literature. It tells the story of Vathek, the debauched and pleasure-seeking ninth Caliph of the Abassides, who decides to build a great tower to 'penetrate ...

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Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaca and Batalha more books like this

by William Beckford

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Vathek: An Arabian Tale

Vathek: An Arabian Tale more books like this

by William Beckford

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The history of the Caliph Vathek

The history of the Caliph Vathek more books like this

by William Beckford

"The descriptions of Vathek's palaces and diversions, of his scheming sorceress-mother Carathis and her witch-tower, are triumphs of weird coloring which raise the book to a permanent place in English letters."-- H. P. Lovecraft, in "Supernatural Horror in Literature."

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Modern Novel Writing: Or the Elegant Enthusiast

Modern Novel Writing: Or the Elegant Enthusiast more books like this

by William Beckford, Robert J Gemmett (Editor)

First published in 1796, "Modern Novel Writing" is a satirical attack on the sentimental and sensational novels of the day, as well as William Pitt the Younger, the war with France, repressive legislation, and government neglect of the poor. Edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Gemmett, professor of English at SUNY Brockport and an ...

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Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents; In a Series of Letters from Various Parts of Europe (Dodo Press)

Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents; In a Series of Letters from Various Parts of Europe (Dodo Press)

by William Beckford

Having studied under Sir William Chambers and Alexander Cozens, the author, William Thomas Beckford travelled to Italy in 1782 and promptly wrote a book on the subject: Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents; in a Series of Letters from Various Parts of Europe (1783). Shortly afterwards came his best-known work, the Gothic novel The History of the ...

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The Story of Prince Barkiarokh

The Story of Prince Barkiarokh

by William Beckford

My crimes are even greater that those of the Calif Vathek. No rash and impious counsels hastened my ruin, as they have hastened his. If I am here, in this abode of horror, it is because I spurned the salutary advice, oft repeated, of the most real and loving friend.

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The grand tour of William Beckford : selections from Dreams, waking thoughts and incidents more books like this

by William Beckford, Elizabeth Mavor

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Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents

Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents more books like this

by William Beckford

Having studied under Sir William Chambers and Alexander Cozens, the author, William Thomas Beckford travelled to Italy in 1782 and promptly wrote a book on the subject: Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents; in a Series of Letters from Various Parts of Europe (1783). Shortly afterwards came his best-known work, the Gothic novel The History of the ...

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Modern Novel Writing: 1796 and Azemia (1797)

by William Beckford

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Travel-Diaries of William Beckford of Fonthill

by William Beckford

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Consummate Collector: William Beckford's Letters to His Bookseller more books like this

by William Beckford, Robert J. Gemmett

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The History of Caliph Vathek more books like this

by William Beckford

No words can describe the amazement of the courtiers when they beheld this rude merchant withstand the encounter unshocked. They all fell prostrate with their faces on the ground to avoid the risk of their lives, and continued in the same abject posture till the Caliph exclaimed in a furious tone, "Up, cowards! seize the miscreant! see that he be ...

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Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters, 1780 more books like this

by William Beckford

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Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaca and Batalha: With His Original Journal of 1794 more books like this

by William Beckford

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Vathek: The English Translation by Samuel Henley (1786) and the French Editions of Lausanne and Paris -1787. more books like this

by William Beckford, Robert J. Gemmett

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Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters more books like this

by William Beckford

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...

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The Child's Crusade

by William Hale Beckford

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Italy: With Sketches of Spain and Portugal, Volume I

by William Beckford

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Italy, Spain, and Portugal: With an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaca and Batalha (1845) more books like this

by William Beckford

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Italy, Spain, and Portugal: With an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaa and Batalha more books like this

by William Beckford

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