Vathek: An Arabian Tale
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by John Frederick Lewis, Eugène Delacroix and John Martin. A caliph builds a tower to see the stars, sells himself to a demon for the treasures of the pre-Adamite kings, and walks into hell with his eyes open. Beckford wrote it in French in three days at twenty-one, in the great house he had inherited with the largest fortune in England; Byron thought it unsurpassed. Fifty-eight plates, from Delacroix to John Webber, carry the tale's own weather: ruined abbeys, castles, and Arab horses.
Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by John Frederick Lewis, Eugène Delacroix and John Martin. A caliph builds a tower to see the stars, sells himself to a demon for the treasures of the pre-Adamite kings, and walks into hell with his eyes open. Beckford wrote it in French in three ...
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William Beckford (1760-1844) was an English novelist, collector and builder born in London, heir at ten to a vast Jamaican sugar fortune. Driven abroad by scandal, he built the enormous Gothic folly of Fonthill Abbey, whose tower collapsed twice, and assembled one of the great private libraries. His works include Vathek and Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents.
William Beckford (1760-1844) was an English novelist, collector and builder born in London, heir at ten to a vast Jamaican sugar fortune. Driven abroad by scandal, he built the enormous Gothic folly of Fonthill Abbey, whose tower collapsed twice, and assembled one of the great private libraries. ...
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