Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian RogueJabez Spencer Balfour was a businessman, philanthropist, politician, temperance campaigner and charmer. He was also an astonishing scoundrel - a liar, adulterer and cheat - who perpetrated the most destructive fraud of the 19th century. |
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| Title | Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Rogue |
| Author | David McKie |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Atlantic, 2004 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | Oct 22, 2009 |
| ISBN | 1843541300, 9781843541301 |
| Length | 284 pages |
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