Book cover for Hadrian the Seventh
Description
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.
Publisher New York Review of Books Incorporated The
ISBN10 0940322625
ISBN13 9780940322622
Number of Pages 424
File Size DL-215MB
Shelf Number JJ838
Grade Range
Ages 18 - 99
Format Audio Plus Download, EPub Download