Enoch Soames (1919) [Novelette]
by Max Beerbohm
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Enoch Soames is an ambitious writer and poet nobody seems to recognize. Determined to learn of his fate in posterity, he makes a deal with the devil.
Originally published in the collection Seven Men, 1919.
Original title: Enoch Soames
Original languages:
English
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Genre: Fiction→ Fantasy
Fiction→ Fantasy→ Time Travel
Fiction→ General Fiction→ Literary Fiction/classics
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