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Hadrian the Seventh (Penguin Classics) by Frederick Rolfe; Frederick Baron Corvo is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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'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 re

Who reads Hadrian the Seventh (Penguin Classics)?

Author

Frederick Rolfe; Frederick Baron Corvo

Publisher

Penguin Books; Penguin Random House

Published

1904

Language

EN

ISBN

9780241313039

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-25