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    Caleb Williams: Or, Things As They Are by William Godwin, Maurice Hindle (Editor)

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    • Pub. Date: August 1988
    • 448pp

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      • Pub. Date: August 1988
      • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
      • Format: Paperback, 448pp

      Synopsis

      Godwin is one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and modern minarchist philosophy. His two most famous works are An Enquiry concerning Political Justice and Things as They Are: The Adventures of Caleb Williams. Caleb Williams is the first mystery novel in which the aristocratic lifestyle is attacked. Caleb is the secretary to a Squire. He unearths a terrible secret and though he has sworn secrecy the squire is not content to leave it alone. The suspense of watching a good man being relentlessly pursued by a powerful and angry man fills this novel.

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      A gothic novel of injustice and oppression that emobdies Godwin's radical theories of political and social reform for 18th century Britain.

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