'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.
Product details
Publisher : Penguin Classic (25 September 2018)
Language : English
Paperback : 368 pages
ISBN-10 : 0241313023
ISBN-13 : 978-0241313022
Item Weight : 272 g
Dimensions : 13 x 2 x 19.8 cm
Best Sellers Rank: #269,544 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#1,724 in Religious & Spiritual Fiction
#9,623 in Classic Fiction (Books)
#11,188 in Historical Fiction (Books)
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