基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：352 页
出版日期：1995年10月
ISBN：0140435301
条形码：9780140435306
版本：New Ed
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Classics
外文书名：瓦赛克及其他故事: 威廉贝克福德读物 (企鹅经典系列)

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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 the most successful of the oriental tales then in fashion. This edition makes available to a new generation of scholars and general readers, the originality of Beckford's ideas, and the excellence of his prose.
作者简介 William Beckford (1760-1844) inherited a large fortune and, at the age of nineteen, went on a tour of Holland, Germany, Belgium, France and Italy. He was a Member of Parliament and a traveller who spent large sums of money collecting rare books, curiosities and paintings for the embellishment of his Gothic Extravaganza, Fonthill Abbey, where he lived in opulent seclusion until forced by bankruptcy to sell it in 1822.