Vathek - Couverture rigide

Beckford, William

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1613471025 ISBN 13 : 9781613471029

Editeur : Centipede Pr, 2015

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He could remain motionless, hour after hour, all his faculties absorbed by the harmony of wind inruments, or, letting his fancy wander among ancient fables, became literally possessed by the spirit of the Ea. It seems as if all the sweets of Asia are poured upon Vathek. It is full of glittering palaces, and temples, and towers ;of jewelled halls, tables of agate, and cabinets of ebony and pearl ;of cryal fountains, radiant columns, and arcades, and perfumes burning in censers of gold. Beckford ssensuous impressions have an abandoned sincerity that forbids artifice or pose. He moves among gorgeous potentates as to the manner born, his imagination rekindling in his own person their imperious passions and disordered tastes. Vathek affords little scope for technical criticisra or the controversies of erudition. I ts beauties are by no means of the recondite order ;and inability to appreciate them is one of those innate diaes, not for the book but for the genre again which expostulation is impotent.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Centipede Pr
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1613471025
• ISBN 13: 9781613471029
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 229
• Illustrateur: Whitlam David