Vathek |
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| Author:
| Beckford, William |
| Editor:
| Reed, Jeremy |
| Illustrator:
| Redon, Odilon |
| ISBN: | 978-1-84068-018-8 |
| Publication Date: | May 2000 |
| Publisher: | Creation Books
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $12.95 |
Book Description:
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Even weirder than the Gothic excesses of Horace,Walpole's Castle of Otranto, even wilder than,Matthew Lewis' The Monk, Beckford's Vathek remains,the most extreme example of English 18th century,literature, a crawling meditatoin on the,trasngressions of the depraved. Witches, demonshuman sacrifices and other spectral horrors mark,the progress of Vathek, ninth caliph of the,Abassides, on his pilgrimage to the underworldwhere his sins and damnations flower into eternal,torture.
Even weirder than the Gothic excesses of Horace,Walpole's Castle of Otranto, even wilder than,Matthew Lewis' The Monk, Beckford's Vathek remains,the most extreme example of English 18th century,literature, a crawling meditatoin on the,trasngressions of the depraved. Witches, demonshuman sacrifices and other spectral horrors mark,the progress of Vathek, ninth caliph of the,Abassides, on his pilgrimage to the underworldwhere his sins and damnations flower into eternal,torture.