Beckford, William,  1760-1844 <br/><br/>
The History of Caliph Vathek 

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<br/><br/> Translation of Vathek  Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vathek  Release date is 2000-02-01 
<br/><br/>Transcribed from the 1887 Cassell & Company edition by David Price  Transcribed from the 1887 Cassell & Company edition by David Price 
<br/><br/> "The History of Caliph Vathek" by William Beckford is a Gothic novel composed in French beginning in 1782 and first published in English in 1786. The story follows Vathek, a depraved and tyrannical caliph with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, who encounters a mysterious stranger promising magical treasures and access to forbidden power. Seduced by promises of ultimate knowledge and the keys to the Palace of Underground Fire, Vathek makes a dark pact that demands terrible sacrifices and leads him down a path of increasingly heinous acts, rejecting salvation at every turn. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>English fiction Gothic fiction Arab countries -- Fiction 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR