Download or read book The Papers of William Beckford of Fonthill Abbey 1760 1844 written by and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Beckford of Fonthill written by Yale University. Library and published by New Haven : [s.n.]. This book was released on 1960 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Correspondence and Papers of William Beckford 1760 1844 Author written by Bodleian Library and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Correspondence and Papers of W Beckford 1760 1844 written by William Beckford and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Bibliography of William Beckford of Fonthill written by Guy Chapman and published by London : Constable. This book was released on 1930 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Envious of each other's individual traits and circumstances, two friends meet for a "fight"--a shouting match of interesting words such as lummox, kinkajou, and balderdash.
Download or read book William Beckford 1760 1844 written by Derek E. Ostergard and published by Bard Center. This book was released on 2001 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British collector William Beckford helped to define many of the parameters of 19th-century collecting. This text describes his flamboyant personality & unconventional life & discusses fine works of art that were once part of his legendary collection.
Download or read book Fonthill Recovered written by Caroline Dakers and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
Download or read book William Beckford 1760 1844 written by William Powell Frith and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill written by Cyrus Redding and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vathek an Arabian tale Memoir By William North The Amber Witch Edited by W Meinhold Translated from the German by E A Friedl nder written by William Beckford and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents written by William Beckford and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents" by William Beckford. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book William Beckford of Fonthill written by Yale University. Library and published by New Haven : [s.n.]. This book was released on 1960 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of William Beckford of Fonthill written by William Beckford and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Caliph Vathek written by William Beckford and published by London : [s.n.]. This book was released on 1883 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!
Download or read book Vathek with The Episodes of Vathek written by William Beckford and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2001-05-14 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Beckford’s Vathek is a touchstone of eighteenth-century Orientalism and of the Gothic novel. Beckford’s later work, The Episodes of Vathek, shares Vathek’s 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 edition—the last one edited by the author himself—the Broadview Edition also introduces The Episodes in the order Beckford planned, and incorporates his final corrections.
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