Nonfiction · 1897
A Book of Scoundrels
A Book of Scoundrels, first published in 1897, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Captain Hind
- I—Moll Cutpurse
- II—Jonathan Wild
- III—A Parallel
- Ralph Briscoe
- I—Gilderoy
- II—Sixteen-String Jack
- III—A Parallel
- Thomas Pureney
- I—Jack Sheppard
- II—Louis-Dominique Cartouche
- III—A Parallel
- Vaux
- George Barrington
- I—The Switcher
- II—Gentleman Harry
- A Parallel
- I—Deacon Brodie
- II—Charles Peace
- III—A Parallel
- The Man in the Grey Suit
- Monsieur L’Abbé
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1859–1930 · Victorian
Charles Whibley (1859–1930) was born in Kensington, London, and worked as a journalist, literary critic, and editor for much of his career, closely associated with the poet and editor W. E. Henley and the combative, anti-establishment literary circle around him. His criticism ranged widely across French and English literature, but he is remembered today chiefly for A Book of Scoundrels (1897), a collection of vivid, admiring essays on historical highwaymen, pirates, and swindlers written with a stylist's relish for their audacity. A regular contributor to Blackwood's Magazine for decades, he held firmly conservative political views that colored much of his later journalism. He died in London at seventy-one.
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