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The Quest for Corvo
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The Quest for Corvo

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The Quest for Corvo is a 1934 biography by A.J.A. Symons. The book is subtitled "An Experiment in Biography" and focuses on the life of the eccentric English author Frederick Rolfe, also known as Baron Corvo. Symons' approach was unconventional, using an anecdotal and fragmentary style to reconstruct Rolfe's life due to a scarcity of factual evidence. Despite these challenges, the biography was critically acclaimed and is considered a masterpiece of modern biographical writing. Rolfe himself is known for his autobiographical fantasy Hadrian the Seventh.12

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