Hadrian The Seventh - Tapa blanda

Rolfe Frederick

 
9780241313022: Hadrian The Seventh
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 0241313023 ISBN 13: 9780241313022
Editorial: Penguin Books, 2018

Sinopsis

'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.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca del autor

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.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
Penguin Books
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0241313023
ISBN 13 
9780241313022
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
432
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
Penguin Random House Ireland Limited
productsafety@penguin.co.uk

Morrison Chambers, 32 Nassau Street
Dublin
Irlanda

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780940322622: Hadrian the Seventh (New York Review Books Classics)

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0940322625 ISBN 13:  9780940322622
Editorial: NYRB Classics, 2001
Tapa blanda