Vathek: An Arabian Tale

William Beckford

70 pages
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A caliph sells his soul for forbidden knowledge in this 1786 oriental gothic tale, which ends in one of the most terrifying underworlds in English fiction. Includes a memoir of the eccentric Beckford.

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