Hadrian the Seventh
by Frederick Rolfe
Paperback
English

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Book details
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Author: Frederick Rolfe
Title: Hadrian the Seventh
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Classic fiction: general and literary
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication year: 2018
ISBN-13: 9780241313022
ISBN-10: 0241313023

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Description
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''If there be one place in all this orb of earth where a secret is a Secret, that place is a Roman Conclave''

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.

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