Vathek, with the episodes of Vathek
By: by William Beckford ; edited with a historical introduction and notes by Guy Chapman
Contributors: Henley, Samuel, 1740-1815, translator; Chapman, Guy
Publisher: Printed at the University Press for Constable and Houghton Mifflin Co.
Published: 1929
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Subjects: Fiction
Other titles: Vathek; Episodes of Vathek.
Work titles: Vathek
Description: 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. --Wikipedia.com.
Notes: "This edition is limited to 1000 copies."

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