Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are

The reputation of WILLIAM GODWIN as a social philosopher, and the merits of his famous novel, «Caleb Williams,» have been for more than a century the subject of extreme divergencies of judgment among critics. «The first systematic anarchist,» as he is called by Professor Saintsbury, aroused bitter contention with his writings during his own lifetime, and his opponents have remained so prejudiced that even the staid bibliographer Allibone, in his «Dictionary of English Literatur