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Vathek - The History of the Caliph, Including the Episodes of Vathek. (Ballantine Adult Fantasy; PBO )
por Beckford, William. (Intro by Lin Carter)
- Usado
- Brochura
- first
- Condição
- GOOD+
- Livreiro
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Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada
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Sobre este item
USA: Ballantine Adult Fantasy, 1971. Book. Illus. by Ray Cruz - Wraparound Painted Cover. GOOD+. Soft cover. PBO (Paperback Original) True First Ed.. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ISBN = 345-02279-3-095. 305 pages.Goodread notes = " 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. 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. Vathek, the ninth caliph of the Abassides, ascended to the throne at an early age. He is a majestic figure, terrible in anger (one glance of his flashing eye can make "the wretch on whom it was fixed instantly [fall] backwards and sometimes [expire]"), and addicted to the pleasures of the flesh. He is intensely thirsty for knowledge and often invites scholars to converse with him. If he fails to convince the scholar of his points of view, he attempts a bribe; if this does not work, he sends the scholar to prison. To better study astronomy, he builds an observation tower with 11,000 steps." >> Heavy Cover creasing & indents; .
Sinopse
Vathek (alternatively titled Vathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph Vathek) is a Gothic novel written by William Thomas Beckford. It was composed in French beginning in 1782, and then translated into English by Reverend Samuel Henley in which form it was first published in 1786 without Beckford's name as An Arabian Tale, From an Unpublished Manuscript, claiming to be translated directly from Arabic. The first French edition was published in 1787.
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- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 159288
- Título
- Vathek - The History of the Caliph, Including the Episodes of Vathek. (Ballantine Adult Fantasy; PBO )
- Autor
- Beckford, William. (Intro by Lin Carter)
- Ilustrador
- Ray Cruz - Wraparound Painted Cover
- Formato/Encadernação
- Brochura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - GOOD+
- Edição
- PBO (Paperback Original) True First Ed.
- Editorial
- Ballantine Adult Fantasy
- Local de publicação
- USA
- Data de publicação
- 1971
- Dimensão
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
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Glossário
Alguns termos que podem ser usados ??nesta descrição incluem:
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- PBO
- paper back original. Indicates that the paperback release is the first publication of the book, without a hardcover edition...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
