Caleb Williams: or, Things as They Are
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough and John Singleton Copley. A servant reads his master's face too well, guesses the secret of an old murder, and learns that a gentleman's reputation is a machine that can pursue a man across an entire country. Godwin was the most famous radical in England when he wrote it — later Mary Wollstonecraft's husband and Mary Shelley's father — and built the first thriller as an argument: things as they are, with the law belonging to whoever can pay for it. Fifty-eight plates after Reynolds, Gainsborough and their contemporaries, ranging from portraits of gentlemen and commoners to coastal shipping, give a face to a world where reputation is everything and the law belongs to the rich.
Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough and John Singleton Copley. A servant reads his master's face too well, guesses the secret of an old murder, and learns that a gentleman's reputation is a machine that can pursue a man across an entire countr...
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William Godwin (1756–1836) was an English political philosopher and novelist. He lived and worked in London, producing the anarchist treatise Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) and the novel Caleb Williams (1794), a work that combines Gothic suspense with social critique.
William Godwin (1756–1836) was an English political philosopher and novelist. He lived and worked in London, producing the anarchist treatise Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) and the novel Caleb Williams (1794), a work that combines Gothic suspense with social critique.
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