The History of Caliph Vathek

✍ Scribed by Beckford, William

• Book ID: 106877538
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 77 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781162697222

✦ Synopsis

SUMMARY:
No words can describe the amazement of the courtiers when they beheld this rude merchant withstand the encounter unshocked. They all fell prostrate with their faces on the ground to avoid the risk of their lives, and continued in the same abject posture till the Caliph exclaimed in a furious tone, "Up, cowards! seize the miscreant! see that he be committed to prison and guarded by the best of my soldiers!