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Peter Marshall’s biography of William Godwin (1756–1836) concentrates on his importance as a thinker rather than his extensive literary connections through family and friends. Setting Godwin within his social, political and historical contexts, this study reveals him as the most capable theoretical exponent of anarchism, an original moral thinker and a pioneer in socialist economics and progressive education, as well as an acute and powerful novelist.