Caleb Williams

Godwin, William : Edited with an introduction by David McCracken

ISBN 10: 0192816217 / ISBN 13: 9780192816214

Edité par Oxford University Press World's Classics, London, 1982

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First printing with revisions. The text is based on Godwin's recently discovered manuscripts and includes his later revisions. Included as an appendix is the startlingly different manuscript ending. Light toning to the page edges otherwise an uncommonly nice copy. It appears unread. N° de réf. du vendeur 006757

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Titre : Caleb Williams

Éditeur : Oxford University Press World's Classics, London

Date d'édition : 1982

Reliure : Paperback

Etat : Fine

Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket as issued

Edition : 1st Edition

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Synopsis :

Book by William Godwin

Présentation de l'éditeur:

LONDON, November 20, 1832. "CALEB WILLIAMS" has always been regarded by the public with an unusual degree of favour. The proprietor of "THE STANDARD NOVELS" has therefore imagined that even an account of the concoction and mode of writing of the work would be viewed with some interest. I finished the "Enquiry concerning Political Justice," the first work which may be considered as written by me in a certain degree in the maturity of my intellectual powers, and bearing my name, early in January, 1793; and about the middle of the following month the book was published. It was my fortune at that time to be obliged to consider my pen as the sole instrument for supplying my current expenses. By the liberality of my bookseller, Mr. George Robinson, of Paternoster Row, I was enabled then, and for nearly ten years before, to meet these expenses, while writing different things of obscure note, the names of which, though innocent and in some degree useful, I am rather inclined to suppress. In May, 1791, I projected this, my favourite work, and from that time gave up every other occupation that might interfere with it. My agreement with Robinson was that he was to supply my wants at a specified rate while the book was in the train of composition. Finally, I was very little beforehand with the world on the day of its publication, and was therefore obliged to look round and consider to what species of industry I should next devote myself. I had always felt in myself some vocation towards the composition of a narrative of fictitious adventure; and among the things of obscure note which I have above referred to were two or three pieces of this nature. It is not therefore extraordinary that some project of the sort should have suggested itself on the present occasion.