Three of the mock-memoirs from Beerbohm’s Seven Men. Enoch Soames, a forgotten poet of the 1890s, strikes a bargain with the devil to visit the British Museum reading room a century on and see what posterity thinks of him. Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton are rival novelists haunting a country-house weekend, and Savonarola Brown has left behind a gloriously bad blank-verse tragedy.
Beerbohm’s dry, affectionate parody of literary vanity at its finest, a delight for anyone who loves the 1890s. Download the free EPUB.