William Beckford
Beckford was an eccentric millionaire whose oriental fantasy Vathek is one of the strangest and most dazzling works of the period. His prose combines sensuous exoticism with dark Faustian undertones.
Beckford was an eccentric millionaire whose oriental fantasy Vathek is one of the strangest and most dazzling works of the period. His prose combines sensuous exoticism with dark Faustian undertones.