Vathek (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Beckford, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199537224 ISBN 13: 9780199537228

Verlag: Oxford Paperbacks, 2008

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Book by Beckford William

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Vathek (1786), originally written in French, remains one of the strangest eighteenth-century novels and one of the most difficult to classify. Perverse and grotesque comedy alternates with scenes of 'oriental' magnificence and evocative beauty in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to superb damnation among the subterranean treasures of Eblis. Underlying the elegant prose is a strong element of self-indulgent personal fantasy on the part of Beckford, youthful millionaire, dreamer, and eventually social outcast. Byron, Poe, Mallarmé, and Swinburne are some of the literary figures who have admired Vathek's imaginative power.
The text follows that of the 'Third Edition' of 1816, in which Beckford extensively revised and corrected Samuel Henley's original English translations from the French. The elaborate notes retained by Beckford in 1816 are also included.
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• Verlag: Oxford Paperbacks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199537224
• ISBN 13: 9780199537228
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
• Herausgeber: Lonsdale Roger