'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.
- ISBN10 048622323X
- ISBN13 9780486223230
- Publish Date 1 January 1977
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 July 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Dover Publications
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Language English