Hadrian the Seventh

If there be one place in all this orb of earth where a secret is a Secret, that place is a Roman Conclave'' br>br>Part novel, part daydream, part diatribe, this strange masterpiece tells the story of George Arthur Rose, a poor, frustrated writer who lives in a shabby bedsit, saving his cigarette ends and eating soup - until one day he is made Pope. As the first English pontiff in five centuries, he is a mass of contradictions: infallible and petulant, humble and despotic. Yet Hadrian the Seventh is really a knowing self-portrait of its flamboyant author Baron Corvo, a would-be priest with aristocratic pretensions, and one of the greatest eccentrics of English literature.>

Product details

• Authors: Frederick Rolfe, Rolfe Frederick
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780241313022
• ISBN: 978-0-241-31302-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Christian / General, Biographical fiction, Religious & Spiritual Fiction, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary