A dyspeptic London bachelor, modelled loosely on the ancient Greek author of The Characters, describes himself and then his acquaintances: the man surprised at his own originality, the too-deferential man, the political molecule, the too ready writer and others. The book closes with essays on debased moral currency and on the Jewish people.
George Eliot’s final published work, published in 1879, where her moral intelligence takes the form of satire. Download the free EPUB.