Author: William BeckfordPublisher:
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.)
Author: William BeckfordWilliam Beckford
Author: Perry GauciPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300166753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Chronicles the life of an 18th century Lord Mayor of London, who was born and raised in the British colony of Jamaica, while also offering a riveting look at how the expanding British empire challenged existing political, social, and cultural norms.
Vathek and Other Stories
Author: Malcolm JackPublisher: 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.
Fonthill Recovered
Author: Caroline DakersPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787350452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
William Beckford
Author: Timothy MowlPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571300480
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
William Beckford had two lives: one real and sensational, the other an elegant forgery he invented in retirement after the young Disraeli mischievously sent him a homoerotic epic based loosely on Beckford's own career. Biographers have been bemused by Beckford's faked letters and dream encounters with celebrities, but his real life was far more significant: he is the pivotal Romantic between Horace Walpole and Byron. Beckford was reared in exotic isolation in a Palladian palace where he grew up obsessed with dark grottoes, towers and images of the living dead. Rushed into marriage by an apprehensive mother, he indulged his actual passions (both legal and paedophile) until a Tory administration staged a sex scandal that exiled him. In his absence his novel, Vathek was treacherously pirated. Returned to England, Beckford flung his wealth into the creation of Fonthill Abbey, which, by its shadowy vistas and glamorous camp furnishings, paved the way for the wildest excesses of Victorian taste.
Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents
Author: William BeckfordPublisher: 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.
William Beckford, 1760-1844
Author: Derek E. OstergardPublisher: Bard Center
ISBN: 9780300090680
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
British collector William Beckford helped to define many of the parameters of 19th-century collecting. This text describes his flamboyant personality & unconventional life & discusses fine works of art that were once part of his legendary collection.
Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill
Author: Cyrus ReddingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill, 1
Author: William BeckfordThe Travel-diaries of William Beckford of Fonthill: Memoir of William Beckford. Dreams, waking thoughts and incidents
Author: William BeckfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description