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Title: The History of the Caliph Vathek
Author: William Beckford
Release Date: April 20, 2005 [eBook #2060]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1887 Cassell & Company edition by David Price, email
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THE HISTORY OF THE CALIPH VATHEK
INTRODUCTION
William Beckford, born in 1759, the year before the accession of King
George the Third, was the son of an Alderman who became twice Lord Mayor
of London. His family, originally of Gloucestershire, had thriven by the
plantations in Jamaica; and his father, sent to school in England, and
forming a school friendship at Westminster with Lord Mansfield, began the
world in this country as a merchant, with inheritance of an enormous West
India fortune.
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