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
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.
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
Author: Alphonse James Albert Symons
Publisher: London : Cassell
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher: London : Cassell
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Quest for Corvo
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.
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.
THE QUEST FOR CORVO : AN EXPERIMENT IN BIOGRAPHY
Author: Alphonse J. A. Symons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The Quest for Corvo
Author: A.J.A. Symons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Quest for Corvo
Author: A. J. A. Symons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Victorians Undone
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.
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.
The Quest for Corvo
Author: Alphonse James Albert Symons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Hindoo Holiday
Author: J. R. Ackerley
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590175247
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah’s fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590175247
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley spent several months in India as the personal secretary to the maharajah of a small Indian principality. In his journals, Ackerley recorded the Maharajah’s fantastically eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court. Hindoo Holiday is an intimate and very funny account of an exceedingly strange place, and one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century travel literature.
The Quest for Corvo, an Experiment in Biography, by A. J. A. Symons
Author: Alphonse James Albert Symons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description