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PRINCIPAL WORKS

Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters (fictional memoirs) 1780
Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents (travel sketches) 1783
∗Vathek (novel) 1787
Modern Novel Writing; or, The Elegant Enthusiast, and Interesting Emotions of Arabella Bloomville [as Lady Harriet Marlow] (novel) 1796
Azemia [as Jacquetta Agenta Mariana Jenks] (novel) 1797
Italy: With Sketches of Spain and Portugal. 2 vols. (travel sketches) 1834
Recollections of an Excursion to the Monasteries of Alcobaça and Batalha (travel sketches) 1835
†The Episodes of Vathek (novel fragment) 1912
‡The Vision (novel fragment) 1930; published in The Vision. Liber Veritatis

∗ The unauthorized translation of Vathek was published as An Arabian Tale, 1786.

† This work consists of Beckford's original French-language episodes, dated 1783–86, and...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. William Beckford (Novel Date 1786)
   2. William Beckford (Letter Date 9 December 1838)
4. Title Commentary
   1. Vathek
5. Further Reading