ISBN-13: 9781612033655 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 110 str.
ISBN-13: 9781612033655 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 110 str.
Vathek is a Gothic novel written by William Thomas Beckford 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.