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The Vision
William Beckford

Aegypan, 2005

"Beckford, well read in Eastern romance, caught the atmosphere with unusual receptivity." -- H.P. Lovecraft THE VISION is a most unusual book by a most unusual young man. William Beckford (1760-1844) was about seventeen when he wrote this strange, surreal tale of mystic revelation. He may have written it to impress a tutor, the St. Petersburg born Alexander Cozens, who encouraged Beckford's delvings into the weird and fantastic. Five years ...

Vathek. William Beckford (Oxford World's Classics)
William Beckford

Oxford University Press, 2008

Vathek (1786), originally written in French, remains one of the strangest eighteenth-century novels and one of the most difficult to classify. Perverse and grotesque comedy alternates with scenes of 'oriental' magnificence and evocative beauty in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to superb damnation among the subterranean treasures of Eblis. Underlying the elegant prose is a strong element of self-indulgent personal fantasy on ...

Four Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Monk; Frankenstein (World's Classics)
Horace Walpole, William Beckford, ...

Oxford University Press, USA, 1994

Macabre and melodramatic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothis tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly interventions, the novel was an immediate success, and influenced numberous followers. These include William Beckford's Vathek (1786), which alternates grotesque comedy with scenes of exotic ...

Three Gothic Novel:The Castle of Otranto / Vathek / The Vampyre

1 review
Horace Walpole, William Beckford, ...

Dover Publications, 1966

A useful collection
A fantastic introduction to the origins of gothic literature. While the quality of the writing itself is occasionally questionable, the roots which this publication symbolizes is highly important in gothic studies. From the first English gothic tale to the first English vampire novella, the reading of this text is an experience worth enduring.

The Best of Gothic Fiction, ..., 2008

Some of the best classics of Gothic fiction (being a mixture of horror and romance) are included in this collection (with an active table of contents): The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole, Vathek, William Beckford, The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley Nightmare Abbey, by Thomas Love Peacock, Dracula, by Bram Stoker The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James, The Phantom of the Opera, by Gaston Leroux

Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; Frankenstein

3 reviews
Horace Walpole, William Beckford, ...

Penguin Classics, 1968

Gothick Terror, Oriental Decadence, Romantic Vampyres...
This volume is an excellent introduction to four works of the Gothic mindset, which hit England at the end of the 1700s and lasted on into the early Romantic period, all the way up to the late decadence of the 1890s, winding up in Robert Louis Stevenson's THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1886), Oscar Wilde's THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1891), and Bram Stoker's DRACULA (1897). These ...

THE HISTORY OF THE CALIPH VATHEK

Classics-Unbound, 2008

Vathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek) is a Gothic novel written by William Thomas Beckford. It was composed in French beginning in 1782, and then translated into English by Reverend Samuel Henley in which form it was first published in 1786 without Beckford's name as An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript, claiming to be translated directly from Arabic. The first French edition was ...

Vathek (Oxford World's Classics)

9 reviews
William Beckford

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

Beckford's Soulscape?
The tale of Vathek is undeniably a wonderful oriental fable, where enlightenment ethics are presented and critiqued. If read in conjunction with Samuel Johnson "Rasselas", Montesquieu's Persian Letters and "Arabian Nights" one may be able to better understand the landscape upon which orientalism (a term used by Beckford himself to illuminate the period's infatuation with the orient, not to be ...

Vathek and Other Stories: A William Beckford Reader (Penguin Classics)
William Beckford

Penguin Classics, 1995

Beckford's Gothic novel, "Vathek", an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was twenty-one. It is the story of Caliph Vathek, whose eye can kill at a glance, who makes a pact with the Devil, Eblis. This edition includes an introductory essay on William Beckford (1760-1844), encompassing the development of genre, the satirical mode, the Oriental tale, travel writing and diaries. The texts include "The Vision", "Vathek", ...

Three Oriental Tales: The History of Nourjahad, Vathek, and The Giaour (New Riverside Editions)

1 review
Frances Sheridan, William Beckford, ...

Heinle, 2002

From the Editor
Here are some features of this collection that readers might want to know about. It includes the original notes to *Vathek* (the 1816 version) and *The Giaour* and presents them as they were intended to be presented: in separate sections following each work. Editorial glosses and footnotes, on the other hand, are at the bottom of each page--my students, who don't like hunting for endnotes, tell ...

Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents - Webster's French Thesaurus Edition

Icon Group International, Inc., 2008

William Beckford's "Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents" is a classic work read by book lovers, students and scholars. This is a special edition which exposes readers to a variety of English phrases and terminology from this genre. While the text is in English, the "click and translate" thesaurus, in French, is a perfect tool for French speakers who need to enjoy this English-language classic, and also learn English words. If you are a ...

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