- Published: 16 April 2018
- ISBN: 9780241312995
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $22.99
The Quest for Corvo
An Experiment in Biography
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- Published: 16 April 2018
- ISBN: 9780241312995
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $22.99
Part detective story, part spiritual journey, and part meditation on biography. Steeped in arcane learning, queer encounters, and fanciful symbolist prose, it is a very peculiar operation indeed, leaving he reader unconvinced that there was ever such a real person as Frederick Rolfe - or, possibly, his biographer
Hermione Lee
A slender book, an odd book, a completely original book ... a masterpiece
Wall Street Journal
One of the genre's most notable - if also quirkiest - triumphs
New Criterion
Extraordinary ... a new template for twentieth-century biography
Times Literary Supplement