character sketches Books

Caractères

Jean de La Bruyère

Daphnis and Chloe

Hugging the shore

John Updike

Impressions of Theophrastus Such

George Eliot

Les caractères

Jean de La Bruyère

Micro-cosmographie

John Earle

Seven men

Sir Max Beerbohm

Seven men and two others

Sir Max Beerbohm

Twelve Men

Theodore Dreiser

Twelve types

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Malcolm Brennan