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041 7 _aen
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050 4 _aPR
100 1 _aBeckford, William,
_d1760-1844
245 1 4 _aThe History of Caliph Vathek
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2000
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTranslation of Vathek
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vathek
500 _aRelease date is 2000-02-01
508 _aTranscribed from the 1887 Cassell & Company edition by David Price
520 _a"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.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aEnglish fiction
653 _aGothic fiction
653 _aArab countries -- Fiction
700 1 _aMorley, Henry,
_d1822-1894
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2060
999 _c44167
_d44167