Hadrian the VII / Fr. Rolfe (Frederick Baron Corvo)

Rolfe, Frederick (1860-1913)

ISBN 10: 1853260819 / ISBN 13: 9781853260810

Published by Ware : Wordsworth Classics, 1993

About this Item

Near fine paperback copy; wrapper edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 368p, 18 cm. Subjects; English literature. Historical figures. Historical fiction. English fiction; 20th century. 1 Kg.

Seller Inventory # 336976

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hadrian the VII / Fr. Rolfe (Frederick Baron Corvo)
• Publisher: Ware : Wordsworth Classics
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853260819
• ISBN 13: 9781853260810
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Reprint.
• Weight: 1 kilogram

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Synopsis

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

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.