Author: William Beckford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Vathek: an Arabian tale. (Memoir. By William North.-The Amber Witch ... Edited ... by W. Meinhold ... Translated from the German by E. A. Friedländer.)
The History of the Caliph Vathek
Author: William Beckford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arab countries
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arab countries
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The History of the Caliph Vathek
Author: William Beckford
Publisher: London : [s.n.]
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
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 committed to prison and guarded by the best of my soldiers!
Publisher: London : [s.n.]
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
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 committed to prison and guarded by the best of my soldiers!
The History of the Caliph Vathek
Author: William Beckford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethiopia
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The History of the Caliph Vathek
The History of the Caliph Vathek
Author: William Beckford
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105872521
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105872521
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
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.
The History of Caliph Vathek
Author: William Beckford
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387017170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387017170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents
Author: William Beckford
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents" by William Beckford. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents" by William Beckford. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The history of the caliph Vathek. Pr. verbatim from 1st ed., with the original prefaces and notes by Henley
Vathek and Other Stories
Author: Malcolm Jack
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141960140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 783
Book Description
Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was twenty-one. Published in English in 1786, it was one of the most successful of the oriental tales then in fashion. This edition makes available to a new generation of scholars and general readers, the originality of Beckford's ideas, and the excellence of his prose.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141960140
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 783
Book Description
Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was twenty-one. Published in English in 1786, it was one of the most successful of the oriental tales then in fashion. This edition makes available to a new generation of scholars and general readers, the originality of Beckford's ideas, and the excellence of his prose.