The Quest for Corvo

The Quest for Corvo PDF Author: A. J. A. Symons
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0241313007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
'What had happened to the lost manuscripts, what train of chances took Rolfe to his death in Venice? The Quest continued' One summer afternoon A.J.A. Symons is handed a peculiar, eccentric novel that he cannot forget and, captivated by this unknown masterpiece, determines to learn everything he can about its mysterious author. The object of his search is Frederick Rolfe, self-titled Baron Corvo - artist, rejected candidate for priesthood and author of serially autobiographical fictions - and its story is told in this 'experiment in biography': a beguiling portrait of an insoluble tangle of talents, frustrated ambitions and self-destruction.

The Quest for Corvo

The Quest for Corvo PDF Author: Alphonse James Albert Symons
Publisher: London : Cassell
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description

The Quest for Corvo

The Quest for Corvo PDF Author: Alphonse James Albert Symons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
One day in 1925 a friend asked A.J.A. Symons if he had read Fr. Rolfe's "Hadrian the Seventh." He hadn't, but soon did, and found himself entranced by the novel -- "a masterpiece"--And no less fascinated by the mysterious person of its all-but-forgotten creator. "The Quest for Corvo" is a hilarious and heartbreaking portrait of the strange Frederick Rolfe, self-appointed Baron Corvo, an artist, writer, and frustrated aspirant to the priesthood with a bottomless talent for self-destruction. But this singular work, subtitled "an experiment in biography," is also a remarkable self-portrait, a study of the obsession and sympathy that inspires the biographer's art.

Victorians Undone

Victorians Undone PDF Author: Kathryn Hughes
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 142142570X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 441

Book Description
In lively, accessible prose, Victorians Undone fills the space where the body ought to be, proposing new ways of thinking and writing about flesh in the nineteenth century.

Quest for Corvo

Quest for Corvo PDF Author: A. J. A. Symons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

The Quest for Corvo

The Quest for Corvo PDF Author: Alphonse James Albert Symons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description

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