Product Overview
William Beckfords Vathek is a touchstone of eighteenth-century Orientalism and of the Gothic novel. Beckfords later work, The Episodes of Vathek, shares Vatheks irreverent and decadent style, and an edition that unites the two has long been overdue. The Broadview edition includes a newly discovered early version of the first episode, never before in print, that centres on male-male love, as well as the previously published version that was re-written by Beckford as a heterosexual narrative. Based on the 1823 editionthe last one edited by the author himselfthe Broadview Edition also introduces The Episodes in the order Beckford planned, and incorporates his final corrections.
