The History of the Caliph Vathek
(2012)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Start Publishing LLC, 2012
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (90 pages)
ISBN/ISSN
9781625581310 MWT17694655, 1625581319 17694655
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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
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