Ebook: The quest for Corvo: an experiment in biography
- Tags: Eccentrics and eccentricities, Eccentrics and eccentricities--Great Britain, Novelists English, Novelists English--19th century, Electronic books, Biographies, Biography, Rolfe Frederick -- 1860-1913, Novelists English -- 19th century -- Biography, Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Great Britain -- Biography, Great Britain
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- City: Great Britain
- Language: English
- epub
'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.
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