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Hadrian the Seventh

New York Review Books Classics

by Frederick Rolfe; Christopher Hitchens (Introduction by); Alexander Theroux (Introduction by)

Synopsis

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.

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Book Information

Copyright year 2001
ISBN-13 9780940322622
ISBN-10 0940322625
Class Copyright
Publisher New York Review of Books Incorporated The
Subject FICTION
File Size 0 MB
Number of Pages 424
Length of Recording 16
Shelf No. JJ838