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- Author: William Beckford
- Publisher: SMK Books
- ISBN-10: 1617206288
- ISBN-13: 9781617206283
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.5 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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The novel chronicles the fall from power of the Caliph Vathek (a fictionalized version of the historical Al-Wathiq), who renounces Islam and engages with his mother, Carathis, in a series of licentious and deplorable activities designed to gain him supernatural powers. 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.
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- Author: William Beckford
- Publisher: SMK Books
- ISBN-10: 1617206288
- ISBN-13: 9781617206283
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.5 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
The novel chronicles the fall from power of the Caliph Vathek (a fictionalized version of the historical Al-Wathiq), who renounces Islam and engages with his mother, Carathis, in a series of licentious and deplorable activities designed to gain him supernatural powers. 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.
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