Character sketches

James Pethel

Max Sir Beerbohm

A. V. Laider

Max Sir Beerbohm

Selections from the Observator (1681-1687)

Roger Sir L'Estrange

The Characters of Theophrastus

A Translation, with Introduction

Theophrastus

Twelve Men

Theodore Dreiser

Seven Men [Excerpts]

Max Sir Beerbohm

Microcosmography

or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters

John Earle

Twelve Types

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Enoch Soames

A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties

Max Sir Beerbohm

Impressions of Theophrastus Such

George Eliot

The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

Jean de La Bruyère