Vathek A Novel of the Caliph
(2015)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Xist Publishing : Made available through hoopla, 2015
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781623958695 (electronic bk.) MWT11428406, 1623958695 (electronic bk.) 11428406
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Valthek by William Beckford is a gothic novel and fictionalized account of the Caliph Al Wathiq. This novel chronicles the fall from power of the Caliph Vathek, who renounces Islam and engages 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
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