The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit, and Defrocking

by Adam Sisman

Book Overview

This "amusing and elegantly written" romp takes readers on a wild ride through the life of Robert Parkin Peters (The New York Times Book Review)--a liar, bigamist, and fraudulent priest who tricked some of the brightest minds of his generation.

One 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640093281
• ISBN13: 9781640093287
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.4"