William Godwin: A Political Life

by Richard Gough Thomas

Book Overview

"Government by its very nature counteracts the improvement of original mind"--William Godwin

William Godwin was the first major anarchist thinker in the Anglophone world, and his thought rocked the establishment at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Famously married to Mary Wollstonecraft, father to Mary Shelley, and inspiration to Lord Byron, he lived a life and created a body of work that lie at the heart of British radicalism and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745338356
• ISBN13: 9780745338354
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.5"