Hadrian the VII by Frederick Rolfe

Hadrian the VII

Frederick Rolfe

368 pages first pub 1904 (editions)

fiction classics religion dark funny slow-paced
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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 p...

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