Mandeville

Name: Mandeville
Author: William Godwin

by William Godwin

Novel exploring jealousy and murder through the paranoid thoughts of a deranged protagonist

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William Godwin

Godwin's Political Justice is the founding text of philosophical anarchism, arguing that rational individuals need no government. He was Mary Wollstonecraft's husband and Mary Shelley's father, making him the center of one of England's most remarkable literary families.

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