Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Godwin’s life and works
* Concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* All 9 novels, with individual contents tables
* Features rare novels
* Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Rare non-fiction works
* Includes Godwin’s revealing memoir of his first wife, Mary Wollstonecraft
* Special criticism section, with essays evaluating Godwin’s contribution to literature
* Features a bonus biography – discover Godwin’s literary life
* Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres
CONTENTS:
The Novels
Damon and Delia (1784)
Italian Letters (1784)
Imogen (1784)
Things as They Are (1794) [Caleb Williams]
St. Leon (1799)
Fleetwood (1805)
Mandeville (1817)
Cloudesley (1830)
Deloraine (1833)
The Non-Fiction
A Defence of the Rockingham Party (1783)
The History of the Life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1783)
An Account of the Seminary (1783)
Instructions to a Statesman (1784)
The Herald of Literature (1784)
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Political Justice (1793)
Thoughts on Man, his Nature, Productions, and Discoveries (1831)
Lives of the Necromancers (1834)
The Memoir
Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798)
The Criticism
William Godwin (1825) by William Hazlitt
Mr. Godwin (1830) by William Hazlitt
Review of ‘Lives of the Necromancers’ (1835) by Edgar Allan Poe
William Godwin’s Novels (1898) by Leslie Stephen
Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle (1913) by Henry Noel Brailsford
The Biography
William Godwin (1900) by Leslie Stephen
