Ten studies of figures who were, as Samuel says, all modern once: Stendhal, Heinrich Heine, the psychology of Disraeli, Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals, Strindberg, Frank Wedekind and Arthur Schnitzler, among others, with a mischievously deadpan essay on the world-view of Miss Marie Corelli.
Sharp Edwardian criticism of the European writers who shaped modernism. Download the free EPUB.