UNLIMITED Audiobooks and eBooks
Over 40,000 books & works on all major devices
Get ALL YOU CAN for FREE for 30 days!
Vathek - An Arabian Tale
William Beckford
How does All You Can Books work?
All You Can Books gives you UNLIMITED access to over 40,000 Audiobooks, eBooks, and Foreign Language courses. Download as many audiobooks, ebooks, language audio courses, and language e-workbooks as you want during the FREE trial and it's all yours to keep even if you cancel during the FREE trial. The service works on any major device including computers, smartphones, music players, e-readers, and tablets. You can try the service for FREE for 30 days then it's just $19.99 per month after that. So for the price everyone else charges for just 1 book, we offer you UNLIMITED audio books, e-books and language courses to download and enjoy as you please. No restrictions.
“What a pity such a beard should be burnt!”
Even the Caliph, when he saw it, concurred with them in opinion; but his concern was entirely needless. This venerable personage read the characters with facility, and explained them verbatim, as follows:
“We were made where everything good is made; we are the least of the wonders of a place where all is wonderful; and deserving the sight of the first potentate on earth.”
“You translate admirably!” cried Vathek. “I know to what these marvellous characters allude. Let him receive as many robes of honour, and thousands of sequins of gold, as he hath spoken words. I am in some measure relieved from the perplexity that embarrassed me!”
Vathek invited the old man to dine, and even to remain some days in the palace. Unluckily for him, he accepted the . . . Read More
Try now for FREE!
"Love your service - thanks so much for what you do!"
- Customer Cathryn Mazer
"I did not realize that you would have so many audio books I would enjoy"
- Customer Sharon Morrison
"For all my fellow Audio Book & E-Book regulars:
This is about as close to nirvana as I have found!"
- Twitter post from @bobbyekat
Community Reviews
Caliph Vathek the ruler in fabulous Baghdad, and its extended Empire, the Middle East and Africa...Grandson of the illustrious Harun al -Rashid, but not his equal to say the least, from the Arabian Nights fame (this is fiction, folks , with only a very vague resemblance to a real man, so don't bothe
«Ο Φάουστ της Ανατολής»
Ένα εξωτικό ανατολίτικο παραμύθι συνδυασμένο με τη γοητεία του γοτθικού ρομαντισμού δημιουργούν την
"Ιστορία του χαλίφη Βατέκ".
Μια υπερφυσική μαγεία υποβλητικής ομορφιάς,
σχεδόν υπνωτιστικής,
που αφιερώνεται- φορώντας το μαύρο μανδύα του μεσαίωνα-
σαν σπάνιος πολύτιμος λίθος,στ
دوستانِ گرانقدر، نامِ <واثق> در مغرب زمین و بخصوص در انگلستان، نامی شناخته شده است، زیرا زندگیِ افسانه آمیز او موضوع این کتاب است که یکی از موفق ترین اثار ادبیات انگلیس است که توسط < ویلیام بکفورد> نویسنده و شاعرِ انگلیسی در قرنِ هجدهم میلادی نوشته شد که بزرگان دیگر جهان ادب، همچون: لرد بایرن، کیتس
An odd book, and not a completely successful one. I cannot deny it a wealth of ironic observation and an elegant style, but I believe the author indulges his hobbies and obsessions--his Orientalism, his ephebophilia, his loathing of his mother and other termagants--to an extent that distorts this ta