The Greatest Books: Written by Frederick Rolfe

Frederick Rolfe

Nationality: British
Description: Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo, and also calling himself 'Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe', (22 July 1860 – 25 October 1913), was an English writer, artist, photographer and eccentric.
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Gender: Male

The best books of all time by Frederick Rolfe

871 . Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe

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 Hadria...

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