Download or read book Vathek, with the Episodes of Vathek written by William Beckford and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel chronicles the fall from power of the Caliph Vathek (a fictionalized version of the historical Al-Wathiq), 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. --Wikipedia.com.