Hadrian The Seventh - Frederick Rolfe

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.