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The History Of Caliph Vathek
Full title: | The History Of Caliph Vathek |
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ISBN: | 9781612033655 |
ISBN 10: | 1612033652 |
Authors: | William Jr. Beckford |
Publisher: | Bottom Of The Hill Publishing |
Num. pages: | 110 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2011 |
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Synopsis
Vathek is a Gothic novel written by William Thomas Beckford chronicles the fall from power of the Caliph Vathek 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.