The Quest For Corvo

Author : A. J. A. Symons
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0241313007
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Corvo written by A. J. A. Symons and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.

Author : Alphonse James Albert Symons
Publisher : London : Cassell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Corvo written by Alphonse James Albert Symons and published by London : Cassell. This book was released on 1955 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alphonse James Albert Symons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Corvo written by Alphonse James Albert Symons and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alphonse J. A. Symons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE QUEST FOR CORVO : AN EXPERIMENT IN BIOGRAPHY written by Alphonse J. A. Symons and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick Rolfe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
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Download or read book Stories Toto Told Me written by Frederick Rolfe and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A.J.A. Symons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Corvo written by A.J.A. Symons and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathryn Hughes
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142142570X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorians Undone written by Kathryn Hughes and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alphonse James Albert Symons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Corvo written by Alphonse James Albert Symons and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A.S. Byatt
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802194877
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ragnarok written by A.S. Byatt and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Booker Prize–winning author of Possession breathes life into the Ragnorak myth through the novel of a young British girl during World War II. Ragnarok retells the finale of Norse mythology: a story of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves. What more relevant myth could any modern writer choose? As the bombs of the Blitz rain down on Britain, one young girl is evacuated to the countryside. She is struggling to make sense of her new wartime life. Then she is given a copy of Asgard and the Gods—a book of ancient Norse myths—and her inner and outer worlds are transformed. War, natural disaster, reckless gods, and the recognition of impermanence in the world are just some of the threads that A.S. Byatt weaves into this most timely of books. Linguistically stunning and imaginatively abundant, this is a landmark. A Globe and Mail (Toronto) Best Book “A gorgeous, brilliant, and significant performance.” —Booklist, starred review “Byatt’s prose is majestic, the lush descriptive passages—jewelled one minute, gory the next—a pleasure to get lost in.” —The Telegraph

Author : J. R. Ackerley
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175247
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hindoo Holiday written by J. R. Ackerley and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.