'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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- Authors:
- Rolfe, Frederick
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9780241313022
- Number of Pages:
- 368
- Publication Date:
- 22/02/2018
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year Published:
- 2018
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- Imprint:
- Penguin Classics
- SKU:
- 9780241313022