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: Rolfe Frederick, Frederick Rolfe
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 28.02.2018
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780241313022
• ISBN: 978-0-241-31302-2
• Pages: 368
• Dimensions (packing): 12.9 x 19.8 x 2.1 cm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: classic, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, Rome, FICTION / Christian / General, Evelyn Waugh, Literary fiction, Biographical fiction, Religious & Spiritual Fiction, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary, Novels, plays, Aubrey Beardsley, classic novels, fiction books, books fiction, good books, best books of all time, max beerbohm, lord of the, frederick douglas, frederick rolfe, hadrian the seventh