Books
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Vathek, with The episodes of Vathek | William Beckford | 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 licentio… | OL18003373W |
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Vathek, with the episodes of Vathek | William Beckford | "William Beckford's Vathek is a touchstone of eighteenth-century Orientalism and of the Gothic novel. Beckford's later work, The Episodes of Vathek, shares Vathek's irreverent and decadent style, and… | OL777881W |