

When a book about the literature of the eighteen-nineties was given by Mr. Holbrook Jackson to the world, I looked eagerly in the index for Soames, Enoch. It was as I feared: he was not there. But everybody else was. Many writers whom I had quite forgotten, or remembered but...

A 1-2 line hook: A sharp, sparkling doorway into fin de siècle London, where memory can travel as swiftly as the imagination. Enoch Soames: A Memory Of The Eighteen-Nineties is a masterclass in comic, urbane storytelling that blends humorous fantasy fiction with quiet, unsettling...


