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 of English literature.

ISBN:	9780241313022
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Published date:	22 Feb 2018
DEWEY:	823.8
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	368
Weight:	272g
Height:	196mm
Width:	134mm
Spine width:	21mm

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