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| | Vathek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Vathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek) is a Gothic novel written by William Thomas Beckford. | | | At the end of the novel, instead of attaining these powers, Vathek descends into a hell ruled by the demon Eblis where he is doomed to wander endlessly and speechlessly. | | | Eblis, the architect of Vathek's damnation, was modelled on Iblis or Azazel; Beckford's use of the name is derived from John Milton's Paradise Lost (see Fallen angel). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vathek
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| | Beckfordiana: William Beckford Biography 1911 and now |
| | Vathek challenges Mohammed in the seventh heaven and so brings about his own damnation and his banishment to the subterranean kingdom ruled by Eblis, prince of darkness. | | | William Beckford, 1760-1844: eccentric English dilettante, author of the Gothic novel Vathek (1786). | | | About that time, Beckford also learned that Vathek, which he had given to the Reverend Samuel Henley for translation, would be published anonymously, with a preface in which Henley claimed that had been taken directly from the Arabic. |
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http://beckford.c18.net/wbbeckfordbio1.html
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| | §4. "Vathek". XIII. The Growth of the Later Novel. Vol. 11. The Period of the French Revolution. The Cambridge ... |
| | This tale itself is not free from a certain overlay of deliberate eccentricity. | | | They are at last introduced, by a subordinate fiend, to the famous hall of Eblis, where, after a short interval, they meet with their due reward—the eternal torture of a burning heart—as they wander amid riches, splendours, opportunities of knowledge and all the other treacherous and bootless gifts of hell. | | | Whether, however, Vathek had been written in three days, or three weeks, or three months, or three years, its literary value would be affected not one jot. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/221/1304.html
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| | BECKFORD-GGIII.html |
| | “Beckford and Vathek: God and Sterotype.” [GGI: 0299]. | | | “Beckford, Vathek, and the Oriental Tale.” In William Beckford of Fonthill, 1760-1844. | | | “Vathek and the Oriental Tale.” In Cavalcade of the English Novel. |
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http://thesicklytaper.net/BECKFORD-GGIII.HTM
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| | The History of the Caliph Vathek |
| | Vathek, who was not altogether so active as his mother, devoted his time to the sole gratification of his senses, in the palaces which were severally dedicated to them; he disgusted himself no more with the Divan or the Mosque. | | | Carathis, apprehensive of leaving Vathek to himself, caused him to be put to bed, and seating herself by him, endeavoured by her conversation to heal and compose him. | | | Vathek, to conciliate the Spirits of the subterranean palace, resolved that his expedition should be uncommonly splendid. |
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http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/6/2060/2060-h/2060-h.htm
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| | William Beckford: Vathek |
| | That there is more to Vathek than meets the casual glance is shown by the rather disturbing fact that Beckford identified himself with the antihero of his tale, and his cousin's wife Louisa with Vathek's consort Nouhinar, while they both saw her son as one of the sacrificial victims. | | | This identification was one of the reasons that Vathek had a reputation among later Romantics similar to that enjoyed by Huysmans' Against Nature among late nineteenth century aesthetes. | | | However, the episode has been arranged by Mohammed to give Vathek a last chance to repent of his evildoing, and disaster awaits him when he fails to do so. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/6422/rev0480.html
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| | Vathek: With the Episodes of Vather |
| | Vathek was first written in French and then published in English amidst a dispute over the translation. | | | The text of The Episodes of Vathek is derived partly from the translation prepared by Sir Frank T. Marzials for the first published edition of 1912 and partly from manuscript discovered and translated by the editor. | | | The text of the Broadview edition of Vathek is based on the last edition corrected by the author, an edition prepared much later (1823) than the work’s original entrance into the English language. |
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http://isbn.nu/1551112817
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| | Review: The memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill, author of "Vathek" (1860) by anonymous |
| | The wondrous tale of Vathek was composed by Beckford, according to his own account, in his twenty-third year. | | | The plot of the tale is as follows. | | | Thackeray says, in commencing his lecture on George IV., that at first he anticipated no keener delight than to hunt down such an animal; but on close pursuit the man disappeared, and he could lay hold on nothing but a wig, a quizzing-glass, a frogged and starred coat, and an eternal silly simper. |
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http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/beckford.htm
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| | Vathek, Arabian Nights and Islam |
| | This supernatural and fantastical story therefore ends with a moral; "the Caliph Vathek, who, for the sake of empty pomp and forbidden power, had sullied himself with a thousand crimes, became prey to grief without end, and remorse without mitigation..." (p.97). | | | Soon his curiosity leads to the return of the Giaour, who requests the blood of fifty children in return for an even greater knowledge; to be permitted to enter the Palace of the Subterranean Fire beneath ancient Istakhar, where he will find the treasures of the pre-Adamite kings, and the talismans that control the world. | | | We have the violent and tyrannical ruler in the form of the Caliph Vathek, who will do anything to satisfy his wants - at one point, when the Giaour, a representative of Eblis, or Satan, requests "the blood of fifty children... |
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http://www.trueislaam.free-online.co.uk/oriental.htm
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| | Hausarbeiten.de: The Functions of the Supernatural in Horace Walpole`s The Castle of Otranto and William Beckford`s ... |
| | In contrast to the self-indulgent Caliph Vathek, whose "tower abounds in materials for the advancement of science" (ibid., 183), and whose mother, Carathis, is even capable of `black magic′, Manfred simply strives for the preservation of his possession, and for the continuance of his race. | | | With Vathek, Beckford widened the literary spectrum of supernatural forces drastically, for his creatures range from virtuous angelic apparitions to horrifying satanic entities. | | | Over and above that, the `curious′ characters in Vathek are willing to do anything to achieve their ends; their curiosity increases in the same extent, in which their morality becomes dissolute. |
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http://www.hausarbeiten.de/faecher/hausarbeit/anl/7710.html
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| | Vathek and Other Stories: A William Beckford Reader published by Pickering & Chatto |
| | Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was twenty-one. | | | This edition makes available to a new generation of scholars and general readers, the originality of Beckford's ideas, and the excellence of his prose. | | | Only two of the works represented here are to be found in any available modern edition. |
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http://www.pickeringchatto.com/vathek.htm
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| | Eldritch Words Forum :: Supernatural Horror In Literature |
| | I have the 1971 Ballantine edition of The History of the Caliph Vathek. | | | Who is the translator of the third episode of Vathek "The Story of the Princess Zulkais and the Prince Kalilah" in this edition. |
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http://www.eldritchdark.com/forum/read.php?1,81,page=2
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| | W.I.T.C.H.: The Princess Revealed - TV.com |
| | Vathek overhears Phobos and Cedric's plans for capturing her and hurries to tell Caleb only to end up running for his life when Cedric comes to stop him. | | | Vathek and Blunk escape to Earth with Cedric and a worm-looking monster hot on their heels. | | | According to Yan Lin, Elyon will be drawn to the Meridian beasts for reasons she cannot understand, and at the end of the episode, it seems that Elyon is drawn to Cedric. |
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http://www.tv.com/the-princess-revealed/episode/410609/summary.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Vathek (Oxford World's Classics): Books |
| | Originally composed in French, Vathek was translated into English in 1816, and it is this version which is now presented as part of the popular Creation Classics series. | | | "With its careful editing, its appendices, maps, and bibliography, this new, expanded edition of Vathek is, all in all, superb." --This text refers to the Paperback edition. | | | The book includes lithographs by the symbolist artist Odilon Redon, complementing the bizarre text and making this the most completely decadent edition available in print. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0192836560
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| | Vathek by William Beckford |
| | Vathek: An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript | | | Three Oriental Tales: The History of Nourjahad, Vathek, and The Giaour (New Riverside Editions) | | | A list of books for Vathek by William Beckford |
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http://www.dragonlibrary.net/scifi/series/Vathek__William_Beckford.php
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| | Vathek by William Beckford |
| | Beckford's Gothic novel, "Vathek", an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was 21. | | | Title: Vathek: The English Translation by Samuel Hanley (1786 and the French Editions of Lausanne and Paris-1787) | | | It is the story of Caliph Vathek, whose eye can kill at a glance, who makes a pact with the Devil, Eblis. |
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http://www.ffbooks.co.uk/n0/n95.htm
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| | Benvolio : Diary Entry 5 |
| | I was quite surprised when Adam supported my deciding what to do with Vathek, after I told him he would not be killed. | | | He knew he would be suspected of Typhons death, and put the body on the battlefield with some wounds (on the back) and started working for the Knights of the Eclipse the next turning. | | | He didn't kill him, but was involved - the Knights of the Eclipse killed Typhon as an example of their power, to persude Vathek to throw in his lot with them. |
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http://www.wolfram.demon.co.uk/rp_am_ben_d_05.html
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| | Broadview Press: Vathek with The Episodes of Vathek |
| | The Broadview edition includes a newly discovered early version of the first episode, never before in print, that centres on male-male love, as well as the previously published version that was re-written by Beckford as a heterosexual narrative. | | | The first volume to take Beckford in all his sardonic comedy truly seriously, Graham's Vathek with The Episodes of Vathek is certain to remain the standard edition of, and commentary on, Beckford for decades to come." --Kevin L. Cope, Louisiana State University | | | His books include Gothic Fictions: Prohibition/Transgression, and "Vathek" and the Escape from Time: Bicentenary Revalutations. |
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http://www.broadviewpress.com/bvbooks.asp?bookid=246
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| | The Episodes of Vathek |
| | Written as a continuation of Vathek, these are tales told in Hell by perverted individuals doomed to an eternity of suffering. | | | The Episodes of Vathek is a cry of despair from a man committed to a forbidden love. | | | Add this book to your wish list |
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http://www.allbookstores.com/book/1873982615
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| | Amazon.ca: Vathek: Search Results All Products |
| | The History of the Caliph Vathek by William Beckford (Author) (Hardcover - May 2002) | | | History of Caliph Vathek, the by William Beckford (Author) (Paperback - May 2002) | | | The History of Caliph Vathek by William Beckford (Author) (Paperback - June 19, 2003) |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/external-search?dev-t=D2Y5TUCCVJ7DGE&search-type=ss&index=blended&tag=zeebebecom04-20&keyword=Vathek
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| | The Literary Gothic William Beckford |
| | Vathek is a major text in the Oriental tale tradition in British lit, a genre that was extremely popular in the later C18 (cf Samuel Johnson's Rasselas) and in the Romantic period (cf Lord Byron's "The Giaour" and "The Bride of Abydos," among others). | | | Maintained by a leading Beckford scholar, this site includes Vathek (although as a series of images, not plain text; this is the web version of a facsimile edition, in this case of the 1823 edition of Beckford's novel). | | | An M.P. who rarely went to Parliament and a commoner who devoted huge amounts of money and energy to a failed attempt to get a peerage, Beckford in his life and works is often a study in extremes and extravagances. |
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http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/beckford.html
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| | The Third Episode of Vathek |
| | An addendum: Clark Ashton Smith's completion (1937) of William Beckford's uncompleted third and last tale (The Story of the Princess Zulkaïs and the Prince Kalilah) from his The Episodes of Vathek (written between 1783-1786 but unpublished in his lifetime). |
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http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/misc/ashSmithVathek.html
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| | LORD VATHEK'S HUNT |
| | Vathek set his collision detector to maximum circumference then dropped into the cloud, trusting that the detector would warn him if anything else came too close. | | | A little chaundrey in the old man's medicine, put there by a trusted body, had ensured that Senrathaque would make no more witty remarks about Vathek's wife. | | | He liked the thrill of outwitting his enemies and keeping himself alive by his own wits. |
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http://kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu/~kamikaze/WasteWorld/www.manticor.com/ikfic.htm
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| | Stories, Listed by Author |
| | * Vathek, An Arabian Tale [“An Arabian Tale from an Unpublished Manuscript” as by Anon. | | | Vathek and other stories, Penguin 1995; this version is restored from Beckford’s manuscript. | | | Vathek and other stories, Penguin 1995; this is the text as reconstructed by Kenneth W. Graham in 1971. |
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http://www.locusmag.com/index/s53.html
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| | new vathek |
| | I liked the whole story of Vathek, and the facts about the authors life really put the book in a new context. | | | I finished the book in one fail swoop! | | | This is a quote from the last pages of the book. |
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http://www.geocities.com/andy_hussey
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| | Powell's Books - The History of the Caliph Vathek by William Beckford |
| | "The descriptions of Vathek's palaces and diversions, of his scheming sorceress-mother Carathis and her witch-tower, are triumphs of weird coloring which raise the book to a permanent place in English letters."-- H. Lovecraft, in "Supernatural Horror in Literature." | | | Powell's Books - The History of the Caliph Vathek by William Beckford | | | Read the Kids' QandA with Louise Marley, and save 30% on Singer in the Snow |
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| | William Beckford |
| | Completed in outline in three days and two nights, the story was written in French, later translated into English by the Rev Samuel Henry. | | | Malcolm Jack (ed), Vathek and Other Tales: a William Beckford Reader, 1992 | | | is an Oriental tale about the wicked Caliph Vathek who builds a tall tower so that he can view all seven kingdoms of the world and leads him to challenge Mohammed in his seventh heaven. |
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http://www.heureka.clara.net/art/beckford.htm
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| | Borges - Quotations |
| | More reasonable, more inept, more indolent, I have preferred to write notes upon imaginary books. | | | -- On Henley's translattion of Beckford's Vathek, 1943 |
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| | Vampire library of Darkness : Castle of Otranto, the, Vathek, the Vampyre, and a Fragment of a Novel: Three Gothic ... |
| | Castle of Otranto, the, Vathek, the Vampyre, and a Fragment of a Novel: Three Gothic Novels | | | Vampire library of Darkness : Castle of Otranto, the, Vathek, the Vampyre, and a Fragment of a Novel: Three Gothic Novels, Horace Walpole | | | Paperback The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, the Vampyre, and a Fragment of a Novel: Three Gothic Novels |
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| | Amazon.fr : The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, the Vampyre, and a Fragment of a Novel: Three Gothic Novels: Livres en ... |
| | The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, the Vampyre, and a Fragment of a Novel: Three Gothic Novels | | | Amazon.fr : The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, the Vampyre, and a Fragment of a Novel: Three Gothic Novels: Livres en anglais | | | Haut de la page : The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, the Vampyre, and a Fragment of a Novel: Three Gothic Novels |
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http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486212327
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| | Jane Knapp Ltd. Vathek |
| | This design reflects the romantic and exotic elements woven around the Arabian tale Vathek, a Gothic novel written in the late 18th century by William Beckford, wealthy art collector, traveller and builder of Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire and Beckford's tower, Bath. | | | This antiqued patination is applied by hand and can be ordered for the same price as the polished copper. | | | Vathek Long - 13" H x 8" W x 5" D |
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http://www.janeknapp.com/acatalog/Vath.html
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| | Welcome to Vathek Publishing - Legal Journal Publisher |
| | Vathek is pleased to announce that all Vathek journals were made available online during 2004 through www.extenza-eps.com | | | Welcome to Vathek Publishing - Legal Journal Publisher | | | Vathek is pleased to announce that from 2004 Portland Customer Services took on Vathek's subscription fulfilment. |
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http://www.vathek.com
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| | Beckfordiana: Review of Vathek, Journal de Lausanne (1786) |
| | Possibly the first review to be published of Vathek, this French review from the Journal de Lausanne was published in December, 1786. | | | Beckfordiana: Review of Vathek, Journal de Lausanne (1786) |
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| | Imperialism |
| | The reprintings of Vathek over the years has proven Victorian author Harriet Martineau's summation: "Vathek remains." |
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http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/gothic/imperial.html
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| | The Third Episode of Vathek By Clark Ashton Smith |
| | My Father, lord, can scarcely be unknown to you, inasmuch as the Caliph Motassem had entrusted to his care the fertile province of Masre. | | | The Third Episode of Vathek: The Story of the Princess Zulkaïs and the Prince Kalilah | | | The Third Episode of Vathek By Clark Ashton Smith |
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http://www.eldritchdark.com/wri/short/third_episode_of_vathek.html
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| | Vathek (1823), fourth edition - INDEX |
| | Possibly the first review of Vathek was published in the Journal de Lausanne | | | Click here to access this review in facsimile. |
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http://beckford.c18.net/wbvathek1823.html
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| | Fantasy Encyclopedia Updates, A to B |
| | The original French manuscript having been lost, a reconstruction appeared as Vathek (dated 1787 but 1786 Switzerland; new reconstruction ed Francois Verdeil, vt Vathek, Conte Arab 1787 France). | | | WB wrote not one additional novel but two (and possibly a third). | | | BECKFORD, WILLIAM The ascription of Vathek is incomplete. |
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| | Fantastic Victoriana: The Introduction |
| | Vaila, Vampire Bomb, Miss Van Snoop, Professor van Wagener, Minheer Vanderhausen, Lancaster Vane, Vanishing House, Varney the Vampyre, Vathek, Monsieur Vautrin, Professor Vehr, Christian Venius, Venus of Ille, Horace Vesey, Gaspard de Vibrac, Victor, Violet Flame, Victor Volans, Volkert, Professor Von Baumgarten, Roderick Von R----, Vril. |
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