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Enoch Soames

Max Beerbohm,

Kirsten Anker (Narrator)

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Aug 20, 2020 Manny rated it it was amazing · (Review from the author)

Shelves: history-and-biography, the-goodreads-experience, what-i-do-for-a-living, french, fun-with-lara, science-fiction, strongly-recommended, well-i-think-its-funny, australia, translation-is-impossible

I first came across this wonderful version of the Faust myth forty years ago and have reread it several times since, but when I looked it up on Wikipedia the other day I discovered some interesting things I hadn't known. Not only did Beerbohm really have a painter friend called Rotherstein, Rotherstein really created a pastel portrait of the hapless Soames, the one that "existed so much more than its subject".

Even more astonishingly, Soames did indeed turn up in the Reading Room of the British ...more

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