Hadrian VII (Wordsworth Classics)

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ISBN 10: 1853260819 / ISBN 13: 9781853260810

Edité par -, 1993

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Synopsis :

This text is a novel of thwarted ambition and ecclesiastical wish-fulfillment. When a set of curious circumstances propels George Arthur Rose from despised obscurity to the throne of St Peter, in a matter of weeks, the world is turned upside-down.

Présentation de l'éditeur: 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.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Hadrian VII (Wordsworth Classics)
Éditeur : -
Date d'édition : 1993
Reliure : Paperback
Etat : Very Good