The Weird of the Wanderer by Frederick Rolfe, Fiction, Literary, Action & Adventure - Softcover

Rolfe, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592243592 ISBN 13: 9781592243594

Publisher: Wildside Press, 2003

Synopsis

The mummy -- which is not less than nineteen hundred years old -- is that of a very handsome lad indeed, of about nineteen years of age, and most magnificently made. There is absolutely no trace of decay about it; and it looks as fresh and feels as soft (though of course it's cold) as the body of a young sleeper. Another curious thing about it is that it does not appear to have been eviscerated. . . .

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About the Author

Frederick William Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo and also calling himself 'Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe' (1860 - 1913), was an English writer, artist, photographer and eccentric. Rolfe spent most of his life as a freelance writer, mainly in England but eventually in Venice. He lived in the era before the welfare state and relied on benefactors for support. But he had an argumentative nature and had a tendency to fall out spectacularly with most of the people who tried to help him and offer him room and board. Eventually, out of money and out of luck, he died in Venice from a stroke on 25 October 1913. He was buried on the Isola di San Michele, Venice. Rolfe's life provided the basis for The Quest for Corvo by A.J.A. Symons, an "experiment in biography" regarded as a minor classic in the field. This same work reveals that Rolfe had an unlikely enthusiast in the person of Maundy Gregory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592243592
• ISBN 13: 9781592243594
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248