St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by William Godwin

St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century

William Godwin

508 pages first pub 1799 (editions)

fiction science fiction challenging reflective slow-paced
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St Leon (1799), Godwin's second novel, is a work of challenging ambition. Like his first, Caleb Williams (1794), it is a confessional tale of obsession and spiralling pursuit. In St Leon the emphasis is on the individual's powerlessness in the fac...

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