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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 Literature," a place where one would think the most flagitious author safe from animosity, speaks of Godwin's private life in terms that are little less than scurrilous. Over against this persistent acrimony may be put the fine eulogy of Mr. C. Kegan Paul, his biographer, to represent the favourable judgment of our own time, whilst I will venture to quote one remarkable passage that voices the opinions of many among Godwin's most eminent contemporaries.

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William Godwin’s novel Caleb Williams is credited as a major precursor to the popular genre now called detective fiction, a formulaic genre consolidated by three stories of Edgar Allan Poe four decades later, and acknowledged by Arthur Conan Doyle to be the model he employed with great success in his Sherlock Holmes series— and by a number of popular writers ever since. Many of the essential elements of the mystery thriller elements are present in Godwin’s story: legal system that is incapable of “solving” the case, death(s) that seem unexplained, misdirection, characters on both sides of the law, subplots, multiple characters with their own agendas, and—the key element for mystery stories ever since—a conclusion that finally unpeels the mysteries. An early and vocal liberal activist, Godwin helped to create a new age of rationalism in England; his friend and partner, Mary Wollstonecraft, was herself a feminist author and activist. They had considered marriage to be an outmoded restriction—until Mary became pregnant. Even after Mary died in childbirth, giving birth to the future novelist Mary Shelley, Godwin’s household continued to be a meeting place for the bright new stars of literature: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, and Percy Bysshe Shelley (who later became Godwin’s son-in-law).

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Excerpt from Standard Novels, Vol. 1: N° II; Caleb WilliamsBut to turn to the story itself, the character of Falkland lives in our minds as one of the great creations of fiction. In the end Caleb says of him: A nobler spirit lived not among the sons of men. And nothing could be more re markable than the way in which the author justifies this statement. We see Falkland at first chivalrous, benevolent, the very pattern of Aristotle's magnanimous man, with only one weakness, that pride of reputation which turns him into> a murderer and a madman. I live, he says, the guard ian of my reputation. That, and to endure a misery such as man never endured, are the only ends to which I live. But when I am no more, my fame shall survive. My char acter shall be revered as spotless and unimpeachable by all posterity, as long as the name of Falkland shall be te peated in the most distant regions of the many-peopled globe. This pride is the rock on which he goes to pieces. One would have to seek far in literature to find a more powerful study of an obsession than that which transforms the gay, humane Falkland into a fiend of vengeance and remorse.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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 Literature," a place where one would think the most flagitious author safe from animosity, speaks of Godwin's private life in terms that are little less than scurrilous. Over against this persistent acrimony may be put the fine eulogy of Mr. C.