Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties

This comic tragedy blends fantasy and time travel as Beerbohm narrates his supposed memories of an obscure poet from the 1890s.

€2.49

Excludes VAT, added at checkout. No subscription.

Delivered instantly — your files are ready as soon as payment clears.
DRM-free, so it opens on any reader you already own.
Yours to keep — a perpetual licence, not a rental.

About this book

"Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties" by Sir Max Beerbohm is a short story published in 1916. This comic tragedy blends fantasy and time travel as Beerbohm narrates his supposed memories of an obscure poet from the 1890s. The fictional Enoch Soames, desperate to know his literary legacy, makes a fateful bargain with the Devil to visit the future and discover posterity's judgment of his work. What he finds there proves both ironic and devastating, leading to an unexpected revelation about his very existence.

Format: EPUB
Language: English
Length: 37 pages
Published: 1 January 1916
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan