Title Caleb Williams / William Godwin ; edited with an introduction and notes by Pamela Clemit

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xli, 362 pages) : facsimile Series Oxford world's classics Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of William Godwin; CALEB WILLIAMS; Volume I; Volume II; Volume III; Appendix A: Manuscript Ending of Caleb Williams; Appendix B: The 1794 Preface to Caleb Williams; Appendix C: The Second and Third Editions: Selected Variants; Appendix D: Godwin's 1832 Account of the Composition of Caleb Williams; Explanatory Notes Summary 'He appears to be persecutor and I the persecuted: is not this difference the mere creature of the imagination?' Caleb is a guileless young servant who enters the employment of Ferdinando Falkland, a cosmopolitan and benevolent country gentleman. Falkland is subject to fits of unexplained melancholy, and Caleb becomes convinced that he harbours a dark secret. His discovery of the truth leads to false accusations against him, and a vengeful pursuit as suspenseful as any thriller. The novel is also a powerful political allegory, inspired by the events of the decade following the French Revolution. This new edition reproduces the original novel of 1794, which captures the raw indignation and sense of injustice felt by victims of British law. It includes the startlingly different manuscript ending, and selected variants in the second and third editions reflecting changes in Godwin's political and philosophical thinking Notes First edition, London, 1794 has title: Things as they are, or, The adventures of Caleb Williams Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxxiv) Notes English Print version record Subject Executions and executioners -- Fiction Master and servant -- Fiction False imprisonment -- Fiction Young men -- Fiction Murderers -- Fiction FICTION -- Coming of Age. Executions and executioners False imprisonment Master and servant Murderers Young men SUBJECT England -- Fiction Subject England Genre/Form Didactic fiction Bildungsromans Fiction Didactic fiction. Bildungsromans. Didactic fiction. Bildungsromans. Form Electronic book Author Clemit, Pamela. ISBN 9780191567407 019156740X 1282126059 9781282126053 9786612126055 6612126051

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