Caleb Williams

William Godwin

W. W. Norton & Company, 1977 - Fiction - 351 pages

Deals with the misdeeds of Tyrrel, a tyrannical country squire, who comes into conflict with Falkland, a neighbouring squire of a seemingly more benevolent disposition.

Contents

• Cloudesley a novel: 74
• April Died in London: 80
• Manuscript ending of Caleb Williams: 327
• TEXTUAL NOTES: 342

About the author

Writer William Godwin was born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire on March 3, 1756. He attended Hoxton Presbyterian College and became a minister. He left the ministry in 1787 in order to become a full-time writer. His best-known works are Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) and The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794). In 1797, he married feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft and they had a child who later became known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley the author of Frankenstein. He primarily wrote novels during his later years, including Mandeville (1817), Cloudesley (1830) and Deloraine (1833). He died on April 7, 1836.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Caleb Williams; Issue 861 of Norton library
• Author: William Godwin
• Editor: David McCracken
• Contributor: David McCracken
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1977
• ISBN: 0393008614, 9780393008616
• Length: 351 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Crime; Fiction / General; Fiction / Gothic; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General