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Les choses comme elles sont, ou les aventures de Caleb Williams

1796 Subjects: Conduct of life, Human rights, Politics and government Translation Status: Integral, Retranslation French Lausanne URL

Authors of source text

William Godwin

Contributions

Par des gens de la campagne (Samuel de Constant de Rebecque)
translator
Isaac Hignou
publisher

Related resources

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Things as they are, or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams has translation
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Notes

Godwin's source text was a Jacobin novel (Kelly, The English Jacobin Novel), aimed among other things at exposing injustices in the English legal system. In his preface, the translator stresses this subject and compares it to the abuses of the French Old Regime.