Hadrian the Seventh
8 best books like Hadrian the Seventh (Frederick Rolfe): Money, The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories, Shakespeare's Bawdy, Collected Ancient Greek Novels, The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography, The Greek Alexander Romance, Sesame and Lilies, The Legend of Pope Joan: In Search of the Truth
| Author | Martin Amis |
| ISBN | 0099461889 |
Here to Stay
The enduring legacy of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher isn’t conservatism as a political programme but narcissism as a mode of living. As the aptly named John Self says in Money, “You just gave us some money... but you hate me, don’t you. Yes you do. Because I’m the new...
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 1857989325 |
Andrew was one of Earth's first house robot domestic servants—smoothly designed and functional. But when Andrew started to develop special talents which exceeded the confines of his allotted positronic pathways, he abandoned his domestic duties in favour of more intellectual pursuits. As time...
| Author | Eric Partridge |
| ISBN | 0415254000 |
This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and non-sexual bawdy expressions and allusions in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The main body of the work consists of an alphabetical glossary of all...
| Author | Bryan P. Reardon |
| ISBN | 0520043065 |
Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, did in fact flourish in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure to which they are related. Popular in the Renaissance, these stories...
| Author | A.J.A. Symons |
| ISBN | 0940322617 |
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...
| Author | Pseudo-Callisthenes |
| ISBN | 0140445609 |
Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or Nectanebo, the mysterious sorcerer who seduced the queen by trickery? One thing is certain: the boy is destined to conquer the known world. He grows up to fulfil this prophecy,...
| Author | John Ruskin |
| ISBN | 0300092601 |
John Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies, first published in 1865, stands as a classic nineteenth-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. Although widely popular in its time, the work in its entirety has been out of print since the early twentieth century. This volume returns Sesame...
The Legend of Pope Joan: In Search of the Truth
| Author | Peter Stanford |
| ISBN | 0805039104 |
A quest for the truth behind one of history's most perplexing mysteries. The story of Pope Joan, an English woman who disguised herself as a man and became pope in the middle of the ninth century, has seized people's imagination for over a thousand years. Despite dismissals of the tale as an improbable--indeed,...
