TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beckford,William
AU  - Morley,Henry
TI  - The History of Caliph Vathek
AV  - PR 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Gothic fiction
KW  - Arab countries -- Fiction
N1  - Translation of Vathek; Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vathek; Release date is 2000-02-01; Transcribed from the 1887 Cassell & Company edition by David Price; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2060
ER  -