Fortune and Men's Eyes: The Career of John Payne Collier
- ISBN-10
- 0192122312
- ISBN-13
- 9780192122315
- Pages
- 454
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Dewey Ganzel
Description
In 1850 John Payne Collier was acclaimed as a man of prodigious learning. A decade later, he was almost universally despised, accused of outrageous crimes and deceptions, condemned to live another twenty years in disgrace and unremitting self-recrimination. -- from first chapter.
