Beerbohm recalls a hapless poet of the 1890s, author of the slim volume Fungoids, whom nobody else remembered. In a Soho restaurant Soames meets a stranger who offers him an afternoon in the British Museum reading room a hundred years in the future, where he can look himself up in the catalogue, and the narrator becomes witness to the consequences.
A witty fantasy and a gentle satire on literary vanity, now among the best-known short stories of its era. Download the free EPUB.