Hadrian the Seventh
$34.41
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
12 May 2018
Summary
One of the strangest novels ever written - part daydream, part diatribe and part autobiography - by one of the great eccentrics of English literature.
The titular character of Hadrian the Seventh is inextricably intertwined with his creator, Frederick Rolfe, the self-titled Baron Corvo. Both were Catholic converts and unsuccessful candidates for priesthood, who led bitter, misunderstood lives, betrayed (they thought) by friends, bishops and prelates. Both were at times strugg…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241313022 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241313023 |
| Author: | Frederick Rolfe |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 12 May 2018 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 127mm x 21mm |
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Extraordinarily alive … a first-rate book
Extraordinarily alive … a first-rate book – D.H. LawrenceOne of the most extraordinary achievements in English literature – A.J.A. SymonsA brilliant fantasy self-portrait * London Review of Books *A novel like no other * Weekly Standard *
About The Author
Frederick Rolfe
Frederick Rolfe (1860-1913), also known as Baron Corvo, was born of a respectable Dissenting family in Cheapside. He converted to Catholicism when he was twenty-six and attempted to enter the priesthood. After he was ejected from the seminary, on the grounds of his extremely ‘difficult’ temperament and eccentricities, he pledged himself to two decades of celibacy and proceeded to write several semi-autobiographical novels. His relations with his publishers and friends, on whose beneficence he relied, were frequently fractious, and he died poor at his preferred restaurant in Venice.
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