Name: st. leon
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Author: William Godwin
ISBN: 9781162685120

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Author

William Godwin

Publisher

Kessinger Publishing

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

394

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.1 x 23.5 x 2.1 cm

Weight

0.68 kg.

ISBN

1162685123

ISBN13

9781162685120

Synopsis "st. leon"

In the evening of the same day, my beloved Marguerite arrived unexpectedly at Paris. In the beginning of our separation, I had been to the last degree punctual in my letters. I had no pleasure so great, as retiring to my closet, and pouring out my soul to the most adorable of women. By degrees I relaxed in punctuality. Ordinary occupations, however closely pursued, have a method in them, that easily combines with regularity in points of an incidental nature. But gaming, when pursued with avidity, subverts all order, and forces every avocation from the place assigned it.

William Godwin

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William Godwin (Wisbech, March 3, 1756 - London, April 7, 1836) was a British politician and writer, considered one of the most important forerunners of anarchist thought. He is also famous for the women with whom he was linked during his life: he married feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft in 1797 and together they had a daughter, also named Mary, who has gone down in history as the author of the Gothic novel Frankenstein.

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