Hadrian the Seventh
'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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-241-31303-9
- EAN: 9780241313039
- Produktnummer: 26163829
- Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'439 KB
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Frederick Baron Corvo
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