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The Quest for Corvo

by A. J. A. Symons, Julian Symons

Pages: 314

Contributors: A. J. A. Symons,Julian Symons

Publisher: Michigan State University Press

Place of Publication: East Lansing, MI

Publication Year: 1955

Subjects: Rolfe, Frederick,--1860-1913

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

The Author and the Quest.

I: The Problem

II: The Clues

III: The Newspaper Attack

IV: The Reluctant Brother

V: The Theological Student

VI: The Rejected Priest

VII: The Nowt of Holywell

VIII: The Strange Historian

IX: The Chronicles

X: The Divine Friend

XI: The Queer Collaborator

XII: Interregnum

XIII: The Happy Interval

XIV: Robert Hugh Benson

XV: The Voluntary Exile

XVI: The Venetian Outcast

XVII: The Final Benefactor

XVIII: Epitaph

XIX: The Desire and Pursuit Of the Whole

XX: The End of the Quest

Note on Corvo's: Bull Against the Enemy of The Anglican Race

Appendix I: The Bull Against the Enemy of The Anglican Race

Appendix II: A True Recital of The Procedure of the First Banquet Held by The Corvine Society

Appendix II -- Continued: A True Recital of The Procedure of the Second Banquet Held by The Corvine Society

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