Caleb Williams
By: William Godwin ; edited with an introduction and notes by Pamela Clemit.
Contributors: Clemit, Pamela.
Series: Oxford world's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780199232062
Subjects: Executions and executioners -- Fiction; Master and servant -- Fiction; False imprisonment -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction; Murderers -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Things as they are
Description: 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 harbors 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, gritty text of 1794. It captures the raw indignation and sense of injustice felt by victims of British law. It includes the startlingly different manuscript ending and selected variants from the second and third editions, reflecting changes in Godwin's political and philosophical thought. - Back cover.
Notes: First ed., London, 1794 has title: Things as they are, or, The adventures of Caleb Williams.

Includes bibliographical references (p.   ).