When honest young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins to suspect that his new master is hiding a terrible secret. But as he digs deeper into Falkland's past and finally unearths the guilty truth, the results of his curiosity prove calamitous when - even though Caleb has loyally sworn never to disclose what he has discovered - the Squire enacts a cruel revenge. A tale of gripping suspense and psychological power, William Godwin's novel creates a s...

'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 thr...

Damon and Delia: A Tale written by William Godwin who was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. This book was published in 1784. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality...

À la fin du XVIIIe siècle, un jeune homme pauvre mais obstiné gravit les échelons de la société, convaincu que le bien finit toujours par être récompensé. Ayant découvert que même son protecteur, pourtant si vertueux, si droit, est capable de commettre un crime et de faire condamner des innocents à sa place, il se lance la rage au cœur dans une longue enquête, prêt à tout pour démasquer le coupable.Mais les bien-pensants veillent : une main invisible soulèvera contre lui mille persécutions...

St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (1799) is eighteenth-century British philosopher William Godwin's second novel.Following the success of Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794), Godwin searched for a topic that would capture his imagination as much as his first novel. St. Leon is the tale of a French aristocrat, Count Reginald de St. Leon, who loses his wealth gambling and experiences guilt that drives him almost to madness. He accepts, from a dying...

Throughout history people have claimed, or have been claimed, to have magical powers through contacting dead spirits. This is a fascinating look at some of those people, from ancient times to the modern age.

William Godwin è stato indubbiamente uno dei maggiori pensatori radicali inglesi, tanto radicale da essere classificato tra i pionieri del pensiero anarchico. E in effetti, deluso dalla Rivoluzione francese e in particolare dalla dittatura giacobina che ne era seguita, elabora un ordinamento sociale fondato sul decentramento amministrativo e giudiziario, sulla costruzione di libere comunità indipendenti e sull'abolizione del governo centrale. La visione sociale e politica da lui delineata ...

Caleb Williams is hired as personal secretary to a British Squire, Fernando Falkland. In the course of his work he comes across a terrible secret from the Squire's past, and is sworn to secrecy. Falkland believes in the virtue of the upper classes and the villainy of the lower. He is uneasy in the power of a lowly servant and sets about persecuting Williams, leading to a series of adventures in an early thriller style.

Caleb Williams es la abreviación común de una obra cuyo nombre completo es Las cosas como son; o Las aventuras de Caleb Williams. Escrita en 1794 por William Godwin, es una novela de tres volúmenes escrita como un llamamiento para poner fin al abuso de poder por lo que Godwin vio como un gobierno tiránico. Esta novela surgió con la intención de popularizar el mensaje de su ensayo político de 1793 Justicia política.

One of the great polemics and the key founding anarchist text, Godwin's Enquiry is his major work of political philosophy.Enquiry Concerning Political Justice established William Godwin as the chief exponent of British radicalism, in the tradition of the French Revolution. In it, he criticizes the 'brute engine' of government for systematizing oppression of individual liberty in the name of law and order, and calls for the abolition of all forms o...

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness is a 1793 book by philosopher William Godwin, in which Godwin outlines his political philosophy. It is the first modern work to expound anarchism.

"Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" is a biography written by William Godwin, the husband of Mary Wollstonecraft, the author of the groundbreaking feminist text "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman". The memoir was published in 1798, a year after Wollstonecraft's death.The book is a personal and intimate account of Wollstonecraft's life, from her childhood in England to her travels in Europe and her relationships with notable figures of her time, such as Willia...