A sequel to Godwin's St. Leon. A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (1799). As famous as Caleb Williams in its day, Godwin's ponderous novel was built round the idea of a man who is unhappy in the secret possession of immortality and unlimited wealth. This parody by Dubois at first follows the original plot closely. The immortal hero possesses both the elixir of life and the philosopher's stone, but his adventures are continued up to the present day, so that after a period of 177 years and 2 days in the Bastille, the French Revolution arrives to restore him to liberty. After being shipwrecked off the coast of America, St. Leon, sounding remarkably like Godwin himself, settles down in England in order to write a 2-volume treatise on the perfectibility of man.