Name: Caleb Williams
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Author: William Godwin
ISBN: 9781544075365

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Author

William Godwin

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm

Weight

0.49 kg.

ISBN13

9781544075365

Synopsis "Caleb Williams"

The reputation of WILLIAM GODWIN as a social philosopher, and the merits of his famous novel, "Caleb Williams," have been for more than a century the subject of extreme divergencies of judgment among critics. "The first systematic anarchist," as he is called by Professor Saintsbury, aroused bitter contention with his writings during his own lifetime, and his opponents have remained so prejudiced that even the staid bibliographer Allibone, in his "Dictionary of English Literature," a place where one would think the most flagitious author safe from animosity, speaks of Godwin's private life in terms that are little less than scurrilous. Over against this persistent acrimony may be put the fine eulogy of Mr. C.

William Godwin

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William Godwin (Wisbech, March 3, 1756 - London, April 7, 1836) was a British politician and writer, considered one of the most important forerunners of anarchist thought. He is also famous for the women with whom he was linked during his life: he married feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797 and together they had a daughter, also named Mary, who has gone down in history as the author of the Gothic novel Frankenstein.

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