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  • Chronicles of the House of Borgia

    by Frederick Rolfe ...
    Once upon a time, Caesars were masters of the world; and the genius of Divus Julius, of Divus Augustus, was worshipped everywhere on altars. There are Cesarini at this day in Rome, cosa grande ch’ il sole, masters of wide domains, but not of empires. Once upon time, Buonaparte held Europe in its grip. Buonaparte at this day keeps exile in Muscovy or Flanders. Once upon a time, the Sforza were ... Read more

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  • The Weird of the Wanderer

    Being the Papyrus Records of Some Incidents in One of the Previous Lives of Mr. Nicholas Crabbe

    by Frederick Rolfe, C.H.C. Pirie-Gordon ...
    When an archaeological dig in Armenia uncovers the undisturbed tomb of King Balthazar of ancient Moxoene, the find is extraordinary enough—but among the relics are a Smith & Wesson revolver and Victorian coins, impossible anachronisms that hint at something stranger still. Within the tomb lies a cache of thirty-four papyri, and the story they tell defies all reason.The papyri are the records of ... Read more

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  • Hadrian the Seventh

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Frederick Rolfe ...
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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 pontiff is Hadrian the Seventh. It pleases Us; and so, by Our own impulse, We command."Hadrian is conceived in the image of his creator, Fr. Rolfe, whose ... Read more

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  • Hadrian the Seventh

    by Frederick Rolfe ...
    George Arthur Rose aspired to the priesthood, but after being much abused and taken advantage of for many years by his Catholic brothers, he finds himself disillusioned with humanity. But just as the secret conclave in Rome is deadlocked in the election of the next Pope, he finds himself rediscovered. A compromise in the election results in Rose being chosen for the office, and he styles himself ... Read more

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  • Hadrian The Seventh

    by Frederick Rolfe ...
    George Arthur Rose aspired to the priesthood, but after being much abused and taken advantage of for many years by his Catholic brothers, he finds himself disillusioned with humanity. But just as the secret conclave in Rome is deadlocked in the election of the next Pope, he finds himself rediscovered. A compromise in the election results in Rose being chosen for the office, and he styles himself ... Read more

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  • Hadrian the Seventh

    An Englishman Is Elected Pope

    by Frederick Rolfe ...
    George Arthur Rose, a failed candidate for the priesthood living in a bedsit with his cat and his unpaid bills, is visited by two bishops, ordained, taken to Rome, and elected Pope. Rolfe called himself Baron Corvo and never forgave the Church for expelling him from two seminaries; this is his revenge and his self-portrait, and it is one of the strangest performances in English — vain, magnificent ... Read more

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  • The Weird of the Wanderer

    Being the Papyrus Records of Some Incidents in One of the Previous Lives of Mr. Nicholas Crabbe

    by Frederick Rolfe, C. H. C. Pirie-Gordon ...
    Nicholas Crabbe, a recluse experimenting in Egypt at the end of the nineteenth century, takes an unintended fall backwards through time into the reign of Ptolemy Auletes and finds that he is Odysseus, son of Laertes, now immortal and a king in the East; his account comes down on papyri dug up in the modern world. Rolfe, who called himself Baron Corvo, wrote it with his friend Harry Pirie-Gordon ... Read more

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  • Hadrian the Seventh

    by Frederick Rolfe, Baron Corvo ...
    “It is extraordinarily alive … The book remains a clear and definite book of our epoch, not to be swept aside.” – D.H. Lawrence“One of the most extraordinary achievements in English literature.” – A.J.A. Symons“Frederick Rolfe alias Baron Corvo is certainly one of the most fascinating of those various literary curiosities of England.” – Saturday ReviewFrederick William Rolfe, who styled himself ... Read more

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  • The Weird of the Wanderer

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Frederick Rolfe ...
    The Weird of the Wanderer opens as an eccentric, mock-scholarly fantasy, framed by papyrus records from one of Nicholas Crabbe's former lives and introduced with learned dedications, classical epigraphs, and a playful air of antiquity. What begins as an archaeological report from Armenia soon becomes stranger than myth: a hidden rock-tomb behind a ruined chapel yields a richly decorated mummy, ... Read more

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  • Chronicles of the house of Borgia

    by Frederick Rolfe ...
    Frederick Rolfe's Chronicles of the House of Borgia is a vivid, revisionist study of one of Renaissance Italy's most maligned dynasties. Blending historical narrative with apologetic argument, Rolfe revisits the careers of Pope Alexander VI, Cesare Borgia, and Lucrezia Borgia in order to challenge the sensational legends that long surrounded them. The book's style is ornate, polemical, and ... Read more

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  • Hadrian the Seventh

    by Frederick Rolfe ...
    'If there be one place in all this orb of earth where a secret is a Secret, that place is a Roman Conclave'Part novel, part daydream, part diatribe, this strange masterpiece tells the story of George Arthur Rose, a poor, frustrated writer who lives in a shabby bedsit, saving his cigarette ends and eating soup - until one day he is made Pope. As the first English pontiff in five centuries, he is a ... Read more

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  • Panem & Circenses - 30 Fascinating Novels of Ancient Rome

    Thirty Tales of Imperial Splendor, Gladiators, Pompeii, Intrigue, Conquest, and Early Christianity

    by Lew Wallace, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Henryk Sienkiewicz, George J. Whyte-Melville, Henry William Herbert, Frederick Rolfe, Georg Ebers, G. A. Henty, Edward Lucas White, J. G. Lockhart, H. Rider Haggard, Wilkie Collins, Harold MacGrath, Walter Pater, Ernst Eckstein, Felix Dahn, Alfred J. Church, James De Mille, William Henry Giles Kingston, John W. Graham, William Stearns Davis, Gustave Flaubert, Irving Bacheller, Nathan Gallizier, Talbot Mundy ...
    Panem & Circenses gathers thirty novels that imagine ancient Rome as spectacle, polity, battlefield, and moral laboratory. Spanning imperial intrigue, Christian persecution, military adventure, romance, archaeological reconstruction, and philosophical historical fiction, the volume displays the broad stylistic repertoire through which modern writers have revived classical antiquity. Its standout ... Read more

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