books by William Beckford     books:     William Beckford      Modern Novel Writing: Or The Elegant Enthusiast William Beckford The History Press, 2008 First published in 1796, Modern Novel Writing is a satirical attack on the sentimental and sensational novels of the day, as well as William Pitt the Younger, the war with France, repressive legislation, and government neglect of the poor. Edited with an introduction and notes by Robert Gemmett, professor of English at SUNY Brockport and an ...             Three Oriental Tales: The History of Nourjahad, Vathek, and The Giaour (New Riverside Editions) Frances Sheridan, William Beckford, ... Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002 From the Editor Here are some features of this collection that readers might want to know about. It includes the original notes to *Vathek* (the 1816 version) and *The Giaour* and presents them as they were intended to be presented: in separate sections following each work. Editorial ...             Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents William Beckford BiblioBazaar, 2006 The sun set before I recovered my senses enough to discover plainly the variegated slopes near Canterbury, waving with slender birch-trees, and gilt with a profusion of broom.             Four Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; The Monk; Frankenstein (World's Classics) Horace Walpole, William Beckford, ... Oxford University Press, USA, 1994 Macabre and melodramatic, set in haunted castles or fantastic landscapes, Gothis tales became fashionable in the late eighteenth century with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764). Crammed with catastrophe, terror, and ghostly interventions, the novel was an immediate success, and influenced numberous followers. These ...             Vathek (Oxford World's Classics) William Beckford Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 An exotic dark fantasy Leaving aside the question of whether this book is a 'gothic' novel or not, it is a dark fantasy. It shares with its more conventionally gothic brethren a tale of dark deeds in an exotic setting, where an alien and exciting religion is practised. In the standard ...             Three Gothic Novel:The Castle of Otranto / Vathek / The Vampyre Horace Walpole, William Beckford, ... Dover Publications, 1966 Three Gothic Novels             Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; Frankenstein Horace Walpole, William Beckford, ... Penguin Classics, 1968 Gothick Terror, Oriental Decadence, Romantic Vampyres... This volume is an excellent introduction to four works of the Gothic mindset, which hit England at the end of the 1700s and lasted on into the early Romantic period, all the way up to the late decadence of the 1890s, winding up in Robert Louis Stevenson's THE STRANGE ...             Vathek and Other Stories: A William Beckford Reader (Penguin Classics) William Beckford Penguin Classics, 1995             Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents; in a Series of Letters from Various Parts of Europe (Dodo Press) William Beckford Dodo Press, 2007 Having studied under Sir William Chambers and Alexander Cozens, the author, William Thomas Beckford travelled to Italy in 1782 and promptly wrote a book on the subject: Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents; in a Series of Letters from Various Parts of Europe (1783). Shortly afterwards came his best-known work, the Gothic novel The History of the ...             Vathek (Oxford World's Classics) William Beckford Oxford University Press, 2008 Vathek (1786), originally written in French, remains one of the strangest eighteenth-century novels and one of the most difficult to classify. Perverse and grotesque comedy alternates with scenes of 'oriental' magnificence and evocative beauty in the story of the ruthless Caliph Vathek's journey to superb damnation among the subterranean ...          products you might be interested in search for books enthusiast, frankenstein, incidents, nourjahad, riverside, thoughts randomly chosen book: In Desert and Wilderness