The Quest For Corvo An Experiment In Biography

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 : 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 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 : 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 J a (Alphonse James Albe Symons
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014117298
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Corvo written by A J a (Alphonse James Albe Symons and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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 : 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.

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 : Julian Symons
Publisher : House of Stratus
ISBN 13 : 1842329197
Total Pages : 255 pages
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Download or read book The Colour of Murder written by Julian Symons and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2001 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Wilkins was a gentle, mild-mannered man who lived a simple, predictable life. So when he met a beautiful, irresistible girl his world was turned upside down. Looking at his wife, and thinking of the girl, everything turned red before his eyes - the colour of murder. Later, his mind a blank, his only defence was that he loved his wife far too much to hurt her...