Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties - Softcover

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In the shadowed corners of London’s literary scene, where ambition and obscurity collide, there exists a man named Enoch Soames—a poet, a thinker, a dreamer, yet utterly forgotten by history. Or so it seems. Maximilian Beerbohm, both narrator and participant, recalls his encounters with this tragic figure—a man obsessed with the certainty of his own genius, yet cursed to dwell in the fringes of literary acclaim. When Soames strikes a Faustian bargain, selling his soul for a glimpse into the future to see how posterity remembers him, he sets in motion a fate as ironic as it is devastating. What he finds in the halls of the British Museum, a century ahead of his time, is beyond his imagination—and ours. At once a masterful satire of artistic vanity and a chilling meditation on obscurity and fate, Enoch Soames is a tale that lingers like a ghost in the minds of those who read it. Blending wit, melancholy, and an unsettling brush with the supernatural, Beerbohm crafts an unforgettable portrait of a man who sought immortality, only to find himself trapped in a cruel joke of time itself.

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