# The Quest for Corvo

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- Authors: [A.J.A. Symons](https://www.bookquiver.com/aja-symons)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2018-02-22

## Description

One summer afternoon A. J. A. Symons is handed a peculiar novel called Hadrian the Seventh and, captivated by this forgotten masterpiece, determines to learn everything he can about its mysterious author. Symons proceeds as a detective might, investigating leads, collecting evidence and corresponding with witnesses. The object of his search is Frederick Rolfe, the self-appointed Baron Corvo - artist, rejected candidate for priesthood and author of serially autobiographical fictions - and its story is told in The Quest for Corvo : a dazzling portrait of an insoluble tangle of talents, frustrated ambitions, arrogance and paranoia. The book, which reads with all the excitement of detective fiction, is at once a literary pilgrimage and reflection on the obsessions and deceptions which lie at the heart of biography.

## Editions

### The Quest for Corvo

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4131-300-8
- Published: 2018-03-08
- Language: en_GB

### The Quest for Corvo

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4131-299-5
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2018-02-22
- Language: en_GB

### The Quest for Corvo

- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-09-4032-261-5
- Pages: 1
- Language: en_US