Caleb Williams

William Godwin's three-volume work The Adventures of Caleb Williams, also known as Things as They Are in 1831 or simply Caleb Williams, was written between 1794 and 1831. The first-person narrator of the book is Caleb Williams, a young man who is destitute, self-educated, and orphaned. Falkland, the primary character, is often a restrained and silent master but is prone to unexpected outbursts of ...