The weird of the wanderer Being the papyrus records of some incidents in one of the previous lives of Mr. Nicholas Crabbe 1912 [Leather Bound]

by Frederick Rolfe

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Genres: Fiction

344 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1912

About the author

English writer, novelist, artist, fantasist and eccentric. Rolfe is also known as Baron Corvo. His best known work is the novel Hadrian the Seventh.

Reviews

[Damian Murphy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Weird of the Wanderer is an unofficial sequel to Nicholas Crabbe (along with The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole, which was written around the same time and is much more conventional). The chief virtue of this book is its incredibly unlikely narrative, especially in light of the other two Crabbe volumes. By way of a colorful selection of Kemetic rites, Crabbe travels back in time, where he discovers that he's both Odysseus and King Balthazar of Arabia, descends into Hades, ascends to Olympus, and takes his place among the intrigues of the gods, all the while retaining his trusty pistol. The prose, for the most part, is fairly dull, if elegant enough and certainly not without cleverness. This book doesn't nearly reach the exalted prose of Hadrian the Seventh or the narrative charms of Nicholas Crabbe, yet it's not without interest as an eccentric piece of writing. I hover between three stars and four.