Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents

Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents PDF Author: William Beckford
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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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.

Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents

Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents PDF Author: William Beckford
Publisher: DigiCat
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Languages : en
Pages : 216

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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.

Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents

Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents PDF Author: William Beckford
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318779703
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Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Dreams - Waking Thoughts and Incidents

Dreams - Waking Thoughts and Incidents PDF Author: William Thomas Beckford
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781511663380
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Languages : en
Pages : 166

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"Dreams - Waking Thoughts and Incidents" from William Thomas Beckford. Known as William Beckford, was an English novelist (1760-1844).

Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents [in, Vathek and Other Stories: Edited with an Introduction by Malcolm Jack] (Penguin Classics).

Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents [in, Vathek and Other Stories: Edited with an Introduction by Malcolm Jack] (Penguin Classics). PDF Author:
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Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents

Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents PDF Author: William Beckford
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ISBN: 9781546982609
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Languages : en
Pages : 106

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"Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents" is a series of letters composed by William Beckford as a result of a Grand Tour on the continent in 1780-81. From brief daily notes kept during this tour, Beckford composed, not simply a travel journal, but a composition which gave occasional glimpses into the inner thoughts and dreams of the author. Strangely, Beckford himself suppressed the book on its release, destroying almost 500 copies of the original print. A much modified and toned down version was finally released in 1834 incorporated in Italy; with "Sketches of Spain and Portugal". Robert Gemmett's edition in contrast is an almost verbatim copy of the original edition of 1783, and provides a compelling early glimpse into the mind of a man who was to become universally known in later life as the 'Fool of Fonthill'.

Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents

Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents PDF Author: William Beckford of Fonthill
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ISBN: 9781414243610
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Languages : en
Pages : 204

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents; In a series of Letters from Several Parts of Europe

Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents; In a series of Letters from Several Parts of Europe PDF Author: William Beckford
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387064217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents (Esprios Classics)

Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents (Esprios Classics) PDF Author: William Beckford
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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William Thomas Beckford (29 September 1760 - 2 May 1844) was an English novelist, art collector, patron of decorative art, critic, travel writer, plantation owner and for some time politician. He was reputed at one stage to be England's richest commoner. The son of William Beckford and Maria Hamilton, daughter of the Hon. George Hamilton, he served as a Member of Parliament for Wells in 1784-1790 and Hindon in 1790-1795 and 1806-1820. Beckford is remembered for a Gothic novel, Vathek (1786); for building the lost Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire and Lansdown Tower ("Beckford's Tower") in Bath; and for his art collection.

Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents; In a series of Letters from Several Parts of Europe

Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents; In a series of Letters from Several Parts of Europe PDF Author: William Beckford
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387064209
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Gothic Antiquity

Gothic Antiquity PDF Author: Dale Townshend
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019258443X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Gothic Antiquity: History, Romance, and the Architectural Imagination, 1760-1840 provides the first sustained scholarly account of the relationship between Gothic architecture and Gothic literature (fiction; poetry; drama) in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although the relationship between literature and architecture is a topic that has long preoccupied scholars of the literary Gothic, there remains, to date, no monograph-length study of the intriguing and complex interactions between these two aesthetic forms. Equally, Gothic literature has received only the most cursory of treatments in art-historical accounts of the early Gothic Revival in architecture, interiors, and design. In addressing this gap in contemporary scholarship, Gothic Antiquity seeks to situate Gothic writing in relation to the Gothic-architectural theories, aesthetics, and practices with which it was contemporary, providing closely historicized readings of a wide selection of canonical and lesser-known texts and writers. Correspondingly, it shows how these architectural debates responded to, and were to a certain extent shaped by, what we have since come to identify as the literary Gothic mode. In both its 'survivalist' and 'revivalist' forms, the architecture of the Middle Ages in the long eighteenth century was always much more than a matter of style. Incarnating, for better or for worse, the memory of a vanished 'Gothic' age in the modern, enlightened present, Gothic architecture, be it ruined or complete, prompted imaginative reconstructions of the nation's past—a notable 'visionary' turn, as the antiquary John Pinkerton put it in 1788, in which Gothic writers, architects, and antiquaries enthusiastically participated. The volume establishes a series of dialogues between Gothic literature, architectural history, and the antiquarian interest in the material remains of the Gothic past, and argues that these discrete yet intimately related approaches to vernacular antiquity are most fruitfully read in relation to one another.