Caleb Williams or Things As They Are

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Crime & Mystery Fiction, Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

Authors: William Godwin In Year : 1794

Book Language: English

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Introduction and Prefaces
Volume the First – Chapter 01
Volume the First – Chapter 02
Volume the First – Chapter 03
Volume the First – Chapter 04
Volume the First – Chapter 05
Volume the First – Chapter 06
Volume the First – Chapter 07
Volume the First – Chapter 08
Volume the First – Chapter 09
Volume the First – Chapter 10
Volume the First – Chapter 11
Volume the First – Chapter 12
Volume the Second – Chapter 01
Volume the Second – Chapter 02
Volume the Second – Chapter 03
Volume the Second – Chapter 04
Volume the Second – Chapter 05
Volume the Second – Chapter 06
Volume the Second – Chapter 07
Volume the Second – Chapter 08
Volume the Second – Chapter 09
Volume the Second – Chapter 10
Volume the Second – Chapter 11
Volume the Second – Chapter 12
Volume the Second – Chapter 13
Volume the Second – Chapter 14
Volume the Third – Chapter 01
Volume the Third – Chapter 02
Volume the Third – Chapter 03
Volume the Third – Chapter 04
Volume the Third – Chapter 05
Volume the Third – Chapter 06
Volume the Third – Chapter 07
Volume the Third – Chapter 08
Volume the Third – Chapter 09
Volume the Third – Chapter 10
Volume the Third – Chapter 11
Volume the Third – Chapter 12
Volume the Third – Chapter 13
Volume the Third – Chapter 14
Volume the Third – Chapter 15
Volume the Third – Postscript

The novel describes the downfall of Ferdinando Falkland, a British squire, and his attempts to ruin and destroy the life of Caleb Williams, a poor but ambitious young man that Falkland hires as his personal secretary. Caleb accidentally discovers a terrible secret in his master's past. Though Caleb promises to be bound to silence, Falkland, irrationally attached (in Godwin's view) to ideas of social status and inborn virtue, cannot bear that his servant should possibly have power over him, and sets out to use various means--unfair trials, imprisonment, pursuit, to make sure that the information of which Caleb is the bearer will never be revealed.
Godwin described the book as "a series of adventures of flight and pursuit; the fugitive in perpetual apprehension of being overwhelmed with the worst calamities", so that Caleb Williams can be classified as an early thriller or mystery novel. (Summary from Wikipedia)