Vathek
By: Translated with an introduction by Herbert B. Grimsditch, illustrated with lithographs by Edward Bawden
Contributors: Grimditch, Herbert Borthwick, translator; Folio Society (London, England)
Publisher: The Folio Society
Published: 1958
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Work titles: Vathek
Description: "The novel chronicles the fall from power of the Caliph Vathek (a fictionalised 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"--Wikipedia.