| The Weird of the Wanderer by Frederick Rolfe, Fiction, Literary, Action & Adventure Contributor(s): Rolfe, Frederick (Author) |
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ISBN: 1592247636 ISBN-13: 9781592247639 Publisher: Wildside Press OUR PRICE: $29.66 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2003 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Rolfe's book tells of explorations into various bizarre places such as the tombs of Egypt where his hero encounters a mummy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6.4" W x 9.4" (1.27 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. . . . |
Contributor Bio(s): Rolfe, Frederick: - "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." |