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Beckford's Gothic novel Vathek, an Arabian tale, was originally written in French when the author was twenty-one. Published in English in 1786, it was one of th
William Beckford’s Vathek is a touchstone of eighteenth-century Orientalism and of the Gothic novel. Beckford’s later work, The Episodes of Vathek, shares V
A Dark tale of the Original Caliph “Woe to the rash mortal who seeks to know that of which he should remain ignorant, and to undertake that which surpasseth h