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Title: Recollections of the late William Beckford
Author : Henry Venn Lansdown
Release Date : January 12, 2006
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 51 KB

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It is a Book of Literary Biography. The book illustrate that The collection of which I speak is that of Mr. Beckford, at his house in Lansdown-crescent. Besides all this I have this day been introduced to that extraordinary man, the author of "Vathek" and "Italy", the builder of Fonthill, the contemporary of the mighty and departed dead, the pupil of Mozart; in fact, to the formidable and inaccessible Vathek himself! I have many times passed the house, and longed to see its contents, and often have I wondered how a building with so plain and unostentatious an exterior could suit the reception of the works it contains, and the residence of so magnificent a personage.