The History of Caliph Vathek by William Beckford

The History of Caliph Vathek

William Beckford

84 pages first pub 1786 (editions)

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The novel chronicles the fall from power of the Caliph Vathek, who renounces Islam and engages with his mother, Carathis, in a series of licentious and deplorable activities designed to gain him supernatural powers. However, instead of attaining t...

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