Which chilling novel of surveillance and entrapment had the alternative title Things as They Are ?
Correct answer: C. William Godwin's Caleb Williams
- A. Jane Austen's Emma
- B. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- C. William Godwin's Caleb Williams
- D. Sir Walter Scott's Waverley
Explanation
William Godwin published Caleb Williams in 1794 with the alternative title Things as They Are. Its plot of pursuit, secrecy, surveillance, and entrapment makes it a landmark political and psychological novel.
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