Vathek

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by John Frederick Lewis, Eugène Delacroix and John Martin. A caliph builds a tower to see the stars, sells himself to a demon for the treasures of the pre-Adamite kings, and walks into hell with his eyes open. Beckford wrote it in French in three days at twenty-one, in the great house he had inherited with the largest fortune in England; Byron thou...