Audiobook: Caleb Williams or Things As They Are

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Caleb Williams or Things As They Are

1 - Introduction and Prefaces

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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 masterโ€™s past. Though Caleb promises to be bound to silence, Falkland, irrationally attached (in Godwinโ€™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 meansโ€“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 โ€œa series of adventures of flight and pursuit; the fugitive in perpetual apprehension of being overwhelmed with the worst calamitiesโ€, so that Caleb Williams can be classified as an early thriller or mystery novel.

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