Charles Whibley: 8 books

2 works of Charles Whibley English literary journalist and author (1859-1930) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Charles Whibley. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - A Book of Scoundrels - American Sketches

A Book of Scoundrels Charles Whibley, English literary journalist and author (1859-1930) This ebook presents «A Book of Scoundrels», from Charles Whibley. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book...

American Sketches Charles Whibley, English literary journalist and author (1859-1930) This ebook presents «American Sketches», from Charles Whibley. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02-...

Written in Whibley’s entertaining prose, this 1913 volume features profiles of Sir Thomas Overbury; George Buchanan; Edward Hall; John Tiptoft; John Stow; James Crichton; Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle; and Sir Thomas Browne.

The career of William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) encompassed the American and French Revolutions, the rise of Napoleon, and the reign of George III. One of the leading political journalists of the Victorian-Edwardian era tells the story of the tumultuous life and times of the man whose tenure in office...

While murder is wellnigh as old as life, property and the pocket invented theft, late-born among the arts. It was not until avarice had devised many a cunning trick for the protection of wealth, until civilisation had multiplied the forms of portable property, that thieving became a liberal and an elegant profession.