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Caleb Williams

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A political Gothic novel of pursuit, secrecy, class power, surveillance, and the machinery of justice.

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Caleb Williams

Caleb Williams follows a servant whose curiosity about his master Falkland opens a story of crime, concealment, persecution, and flight. William Godwin fuses Gothic suspense with political criticism, making the novel a study of class authority, reputation, fear, legal power, surveillance, and the individual trapped inside social institutions.

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William Godwin died in 1836, and Caleb Williams was first published in 1794. These dates support the public-domain basis for this original-language edition.

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02OR THINGS AS THEY ARE
  3. 03BY WILLIAM GODWIN
  4. 04WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ERNEST A. BAKER, M.A.
  5. 05LONDON
  6. 06DRAMATIS PERSONAE
  7. 07A GAOLER.
  8. 08INTRODUCTION
  9. 09E. A. B.
  10. 10PREFACE
  11. 11BY THE AUTHOR.
  12. 12AUTHOR'S LATEST PREFACE.
  13. 13LONDON,
  14. 14PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
  15. 15VOLUME THE FIRST.
  16. 16CHAPTER I.
  17. 17CHAPTER II.
  18. 18CHAPTER III.
  19. 19CHAPTER IV.
  20. 20CHAPTER V.
  21. 21CHAPTER VI.
  22. 22CHAPTER VII.
  23. 23CHAPTER VIII.
  24. 24CHAPTER IX.
  25. 25CHAPTER X.
  26. 26CHAPTER XI.
  27. 27CHAPTER XII.
  28. 28END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
  29. 29VOLUME THE SECOND.
  30. 30CHAPTER I.
  31. 31CHAPTER II.
  32. 32CHAPTER III.
  33. 33I was silent.
  34. 34CHAPTER IV.
  35. 35CHAPTER V.
  36. 36CHAPTER VI.
  37. 37I started with terror, and was silent.
  38. 38CHAPTER VII.
  39. 39CHAPTER VIII.
  40. 40"CALEB WILLIAMS."
  41. 41CHAPTER IX.
  42. 42WILLIAMS,
  43. 43"VALENTINE FORESTER."
  44. 44CHAPTER X.
  45. 45I was silent.
  46. 46CHAPTER XI.
  47. 47CHAPTER XII.
  48. 48CHAPTER XIII.
  49. 49CHAPTER XIV.
  50. 50END OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
  51. 51VOLUME THE THIRD.
  52. 52CHAPTER I.
  53. 53CHAPTER II.
  54. 54CHAPTER III.
  55. 55CHAPTER IV.
  56. 56CHAPTER V.
  57. 57CHAPTER VI.
  58. 58CHAPTER VII.
  59. 59CHAPTER VIII.
  60. 60CHAPTER IX.
  61. 61CHAPTER X.
  62. 62CHAPTER XI.
  63. 63I said that "I had always protested my innocence, and must now repeat the protest."
  64. 64CHAPTER XII.
  65. 65CHAPTER XIII.
  66. 66"MR. WILLIAMS,
  67. 67"LAURA DENISON."
  68. 68CHAPTER XIV.
  69. 69I made no answer. My silence was an affirmative to the question.
  70. 70CHAPTER XV.
  71. 71POSTSCRIPT.
  72. 72THE END.

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