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SHORTER NOVELS EIGHTEENTH CENTURY RASSELAS—THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO—VATHEK
INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS
THE HISTORY OF RASSELAS PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA BY DOCTOR JOHNSON
SAMUEL JOHNSON
CHAPTER I DESCRIPTION OF A PALACE IN A VALLEY
CHAPTER II THE DISCONTENT OF RASSELAS IN THE HAPPY VALLEY
CHAPTER III THE WANTS OF HIM THAT WANTS NOTHING
CHAPTER IV THE PRINCE CONTINUES TO GRIEVE AND MUSE
CHAPTER V THE PRINCE MEDITATES HIS ESCAPE
CHAPTER VI A DISSERTATION ON THE ART OF FLYING
CHAPTER VII THE PRINCE FINDS A MAN OF LEARNING
CHAPTER VIII THE HISTORY OF IMLAC
CHAPTER IX THE HISTORY OF IMLAC CONTINUED
CHAPTER X IMLAC’S HISTORY CONTINUED. A DISSERTATION UPON POETRY
CHAPTER XI IMLAC’S NARRATIVE CONTINUED. A HINT ON PILGRIMAGE
CHAPTER XII THE STORY OF IMLAC CONTINUED
CHAPTER XIII RASSELAS DISCOVERS THE MEANS OF ESCAPE
CHAPTER XIV RASSELAS AND IMLAC RECEIVE AN UNEXPECTED VISIT
CHAPTER XV THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS LEAVE THE VALLEY, AND SEE MANY WONDERS
CHAPTER XVI THEY ENTER CAIRO, AND FIND EVERY MAN HAPPY
CHAPTER XVII THE PRINCE ASSOCIATES WITH YOUNG MEN OF SPIRIT AND GAIETY
CHAPTER XVIII THE PRINCE FINDS A WISE AND HAPPY MAN
CHAPTER XIX A GLIMPSE OF PASTORAL LIFE
CHAPTER XX THE DANGER OF PROSPERITY
CHAPTER XXI THE HAPPINESS OF SOLITUDE. THE HERMIT’S HISTORY
CHAPTER XXII THE HAPPINESS OF A LIFE LED ACCORDING TO NATURE
CHAPTER XXIII THE PRINCE AND HIS SISTER DIVIDE BETWEEN THEM THE WORK OF OBSERVATION
CHAPTER XXIV THE PRINCE EXAMINES THE HAPPINESS OF HIGH STATIONS
CHAPTER XXV THE PRINCESS PURSUES HER INQUIRY WITH MORE DILIGENCE THAN SUCCESS
CHAPTER XXVI THE PRINCESS CONTINUES HER REMARKS UPON PRIVATE LIFE
CHAPTER XXVII DISQUISITION UPON GREATNESS
CHAPTER XXVIII RASSELAS AND NEKAYAH CONTINUE THEIR CONVERSATION
CHAPTER XXIX THE DEBATE OF MARRIAGE CONTINUED
CHAPTER XXX IMLAC ENTERS AND CHANGES THE CONVERSATION
CHAPTER XXXI THEY VISIT THE PYRAMIDS
CHAPTER XXXII THEY ENTER THE PYRAMID
CHAPTER XXXIII THE PRINCESS MEETS WITH AN UNEXPECTED MISFORTUNE
CHAPTER XXXIV THEY RETURN TO CAIRO WITHOUT PEKUAH
CHAPTER XXXV THE PRINCESS LANGUISHES FOR WANT OF PEKUAH
CHAPTER XXXVI PEKUAH IS STILL REMEMBERED. THE PROGRESS OF SORROW
CHAPTER XXXVII THE PRINCESS HEARS NEWS OF PEKUAH
CHAPTER XXXVIII THE ADVENTURES OF THE LADY PEKUAH
CHAPTER XXXIX THE ADVENTURES OF PEKUAH CONTINUED
CHAPTER XL THE HISTORY OF A MAN OF LEARNING
CHAPTER XLI THE ASTRONOMER DISCOVERS THE CAUSE OF HIS UNEASINESS
CHAPTER XLII THE OPINION OF THE ASTRONOMER IS EXPLAINED AND JUSTIFIED
CHAPTER XLIII THE ASTRONOMER LEAVES IMLAC HIS DIRECTIONS
CHAPTER XLIV THE DANGEROUS PREVALENCE OF IMAGINATION
CHAPTER XLV THEY DISCOURSE WITH AN OLD MAN
CHAPTER XLVI THE PRINCESS AND PEKUAH VISIT THE ASTRONOMER
CHAPTER XLVII THE PRINCE ENTERS, AND BRINGS A NEW TOPIC
CHAPTER XLVIII IMLAC DISCOURSES ON THE NATURE OF THE SOUL
CHAPTER XLIX THE CONCLUSION, IN WHICH NOTHING IS CONCLUDED
THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO: A GOTHIC STORY BY HORACE WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD
HORACE WALPOLE
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
SONNET TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY MARY COKE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
VATHEK: AN ARABIAN TALE BY WILLIAM BECKFORD
WILLIAM BECKFORD
VATHEK
NOTES
Page 195. Caliph
Page 195. Omar Ben Abdalaziz
Page 195. Samarah
Page 195. ... in the most delightful succession
Page 196. Mani
Page 196. Houris
Page 196. ... it was not with the orthodox that he usually held
Page 197. Mahomet in the seventh heaven
Page 197. Genii
Page 197. Assist him to complete the tower
Page 198. ... the stranger displayed such rarities as he had never before seen
Page 198. ... characters on the sabres
Page 201. ... beards burnt off
Page 202. The old man put on his green spectacles
Page 204. Accursed Giaour!
Page 206. Bababalouk, the chief of his eunuchs
Page 206. ... the divan
Page 206. The officers arranged themselves in a semicircle
Page 206. ... the prime vizier
Page 207. The muezzins and their minarets
Page 210. Soliman Ben Daoud
Page 210. I require the blood of fifty of the most beautiful sons of the viziers
Page 213. ... bracelet
Page 214. ... mutes
Page 215. Prayer announced at break of day
Page 216. Skulls and skeletons
Page 219. Flagons of wine and vases of sherbet reposing on snow
Page 219. ... a parchment
Page 219. Istakar
Page 219. Gian Ben Gian
Page 219. ... the talismans of Soliman
Page 219. ... pre-Adamite sultans
Page 219. ... beware how thou enterest any dwelling
Page 220. ... the ass of Balaam, the dog of the seven sleepers, and the other animals admitted into the paradise of Mahomet
Page 220. Rocnabad
Page 220. Do you, with the advice of my mother, govern
Page 221. Chintz and muslin
Page 221. Moullahs
Page 221. ... the sacred Caaba
Page 222. ... the supposed oratory
Page 223. ... regale these pious poor souls with my good wine from Schiraz
Page 224. ... the most stately tulips of the East
Page 224. ... certain cages of ladies
Page 224. ... dislodged
Page 225. ... those nocturnal insects which presage evil
Page 225. ... the locusts were heard from the thickets on the plain of Catoul
Page 226. Vathek ... with two little pages
Page 226. ... confectioners and cooks
Page 227. ... hath seen some part of our bodies; and, what is worse, our very faces
Page 228. ... vases of snow, and grapes from the banks of the Tigris
Page 229. ... horrible Kaf
Page 229. ... the Simurgh
Page 229. ... palampores, etc.
Page 229. ... afrits
Page 229. ... tablets fraught with preternatural qualities
Page 230. ... dwarfs
Page 230. ... a small spring supplies us with water for the Abdest, and we daily repeat prayers, etc.
Page 230. ... reading the holy Koran
Page 230. ... the bells of a cafila
Page 230. Deggial
Page 230. ... dictated by the blessed Intelligence
Page 231. ... to kiss the fringe of your consecrated robe
Page 231. ... and implore you to enter his humble habitation
Page 231. ... red characters
Page 231. ... thy body shall be spit upon
Page 231. ... bats will nestle in thy belly
Page 232. ... the Bismillah
Page 232. ... inscription
Page 232. ... a magnificent tecthtrevan
Page 233. ... your ivory limbs
Page 233. ... baths of rose-water
Page 233. ... lamb à la crême
Page 233. ... made the dwarfs dance against their will
Page 233. ... durst not refuse the commander of the faithful
Page 233. ... the nine hundred and ninety-ninth time
Page 234. ... black eunuchs, sabre in hand
Page 234. ... to let down the great swing
Page 235. ... melodious Philomel, I am thy rose
Page 236. ... calenders
Page 236. ... santons
Page 236. ... dervishes
Page 236. ... Brahmins
Page 236. ... fakirs
Page 237. ... Visnow and Ixhora
Page 237. ... talapoins
Page 237. ... small plates of abominations
Page 238. ... fish which they drew from a river
Page 238. Sinai
Page 238. Peris
Page 239. ... butterflies of Cashmere
Page 240. Megnoun and Leilah
Page 240. ... they still detained him in the harem
Page 240. ... dart the lance in the chase
Page 240. Shaddukian and Ambreabad
Page 242. ... a spoon of cocknos
Page 243. Ghouls
Page 244. ... feathers of the heron, all sparkling with carbuncles
Page 244. ... whose eyes pervade the inmost soul of a female
Page 244. ... the carbuncle of Giamschid
Page 244. ... have you false keys? Come to the dark chamber
Page 246. ... their faith is mutually plighted
Page 246. ... violate the rights of hospitality
Page 246. ... narcotic powder
Page 248. Funeral vestments were prepared; their bodies washed, etc.
Page 248. ... all instruments of music were broken
Page 248. ... imans began to recite their prayers
Page 248. The wailful cries of La Ilah illa Alla!
Page 249. ... the angel of death had opened the portal of some other world
Page 250. Monker and Nakir
Page 250. ... the fatal bridge
Page 250. ... a certain series of years
Page 250. ... the sacred camel
Page 251. ... basket-making
Page 251. ... the caliph presented himself to the emir in a new light
Page 255. ... the waving of fans
Page 256. ... wine hoarded up in bottles, prior to the birth of Mahomet
Page 256. ... excavated ovens in the rock
Page 257. ... her great camel Alboufaki
Page 257. ... to set forward, notwithstanding it was noon
Page 258. ... the confines of some cemetery
Page 260. ... a Myrabolan comfit
Page 261. ... blue fishes
Page 262. ... waving streamers on which were inscribed the names of Allah and the Prophet
Page 263. ... astrolabes
Page 264. On the banks of the stream, hives and oratories
Page 265. ... sheiks ... cadis
Page 265. Asses in bridles of riband inscribed from the Koran
Page 266. One of these beneficent genii, assuming the exterior of a shepherd, etc., began to pour from his flute, etc.
Page 266. ... involuntarily drawn towards the declivity of the hill
Page 267. Eblis
Page 267. ... compensate for thy impieties by an exemplary life
Page 268. Balkis
Page 270. The pavement, strewed over with saffron
Page 271. Ouranbad
Page 272. Creatures of clay
Page 272. ... the fortress of Aherman
Page 272. ... the halls of Argenk
Page 272. ... holding his right hand, motionless, on his heart
Page 273. In my lifetime I filled, etc.
Page 274. ... an unrelenting fire preys on my heart
Page 275. Carathis on the back of an afrit
Page 277. ... glanced off in a rapid whirl that rendered her invisible
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