One day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be Pope. He is hardly surprised and not in the least daunted. "The previous English pontiff was Hadrian the Fourth," he declares. "The present English pontiff is Hadrian the Seventh. It pleases Us; and so, by Our own impulse, We command."Hadrian is conceived in the image of his creator, Fr. Rolfe, whose aristocratic pretensions (he called himself Baron Corvo), religious obsession, and anarchic and self-aggrandizing sensibility have made him known as one of the great English eccentrics. Fr. Rolfe endured a lifetime of indignities and disappointments. However, in the hilarious and touching pages of this, his finest novel, he triumphs.

Hadrian the Seventh

Rolfe, Frederick

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin??Books

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The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole (20th Century Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Oxford University Press

A History of the Borgias

History

Franklin Classics

One day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be Pope. He is hardly surprised and not in the least daunted. "The previous English pontiff was Hadrian the Fourth," he declares. "The present English pontiff is Hadrian the Seventh. It pleases Us; and so, by Our own impulse, We command."Hadrian is conceived in the image of his creator, Fr. Rolfe, whose aristocratic pretensions (he called himself Baron Corvo), religious obsession, and anarchic and self-aggrandizing sensibility have made him known as one of the great English eccentrics. Fr. Rolfe endured a lifetime of indignities and disappointments. However, in the hilarious and touching pages of this, his finest novel, he triumphs.

Literary

Ballantine

Hubert's Arthur: Being Certain Curious Documents Found Among the Literary Remains of Mr. N. C. (Lost Race and Adult Fantasy Ser.)

Prospero & Caliban

Pirie-gordon, Charles Harry Clinton

Ayer Co. Pub

Dover Pubns

The Desire / Pursuit of the Whole

Contemporary

Quartet Books Ltd.

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