Name: Caleb Williams: Or Things as They Are (en Inglés)
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Author: William Godwin

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Caleb Williams: Or Things as They Are (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

William Godwin

Editorial

Createspace

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

206

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

28x21.6x1.1 cm

Peso

0.49 kg.

ISBN13

9781979689199

Categorías

Tema narrativo: vida interior

Caleb Williams: Or Things as They Are (en Inglés)

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Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by William Godwin. Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (often abbreviated to Caleb Williams) (1794) by William Godwin is a three-volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a tyrannical government. Intended as a popularisation of the ideas presented in his 1793 treatise Political Justice Godwin uses Caleb Williams to show how legal and other institutions can and do destroy individuals, even when the people the justice system touches are innocent of any crime. This reality, in Godwin's mind, was therefore a description of "things as they are." The original manuscript included a preface that was removed from publication, because its content alarmed booksellers of the time. 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. Kegan Paul, his biographer, to represent the favourable judgment of our own time, whilst I will venture to quote one remarkable passage that voices the opinions of many among Godwin's most eminent contemporaries.

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William Godwin (Wisbech, 3 de marzo de 1756 - Londres, 7 de abril de 1836) fue un político y escritor británico, considerado uno de los más importantes precursores del pensamiento anarquista. Es también famoso por las mujeres con las cuales estuvo vinculado durante su vida: se casó con la escritora feminista Mary Wollstonecraft en 1797 y junto a ella tuvo una hija, también llamada Mary, que ha pasado a la posteridad como la autora de la novela gótica Frankenstein.

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