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Hadrian the VII (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

Rolfe, Frederick

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9781853260810: Hadrian the VII (Wordsworth Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1853260819 ISBN 13: 9781853260810
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

Hadrian VII (Wordsworth Classics) [paperback] Rolfe, Frederick William [Dec 07, 1993]

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About the Author

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.

Review

It is extraordinarily alive, even though it has been buried for twenty years. Up it rises to confront us...Only a first-rate book escapes its date...The book remains a clear and definite book of our epoch, not to be swept aside.
— D.H. Lawrence

Frederick Rolfe alias Baron Corvo is certainly one of the most fascinating of those various literary curiosities of England.
— Saturday Review

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Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1853260819
ISBN 13 
9781853260810
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
368
Rating
  • 3.44 out of 5 stars
    608 ratings by Goodreads