The Professor and the Parson : A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking Hardback
by Adam Sisman
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A Times Best Paperback of February 2020'I embarrassed myself by uncontrollable guffaws ...
This is a truly wonderful story' A. N. Wilson, Spectator'A white-knuckle roller-coaster ride of fibs and frauds' Sunday Telegraph'An utterly mad, and wholly delightful story of chicanery and fantasy' Simon WinchesterOne day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor-Roper received a curious letter.
It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a student at Magdalen College, with the unlikely claim that he was being persecuted by the Bishop of Oxford.
Curiosity piqued, Trevor-Roper agreed to a meeting. It was to be his first encounter with Robert Parkin Peters: plagiarist, bigamist, fraudulent priest and imposter extraordinaire.
Based on Trevor-Roper's own detailed 'file on Peters', The Professor and the Parson is a witty and charming account of eccentricity, extraordinary narcissism and a life as wild and unlikely as any in fiction.
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- Pages:240 pages, integrated
- Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
- Publication Date:03/05/2019
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, integrated
- Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
- Publication Date:03/05/2019
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- ISBN:9781788162111