Edmund Campion: Jesuit and Martyr
Jesuit and Martyr
$22.72
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2013
Summary
Waugh’s singular biography of a sixteenth-century Jesuit martyr
In 1581 Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest working underground in Protestant England, was found guilty of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Years later he would be beatified. Evelyn Waugh’s compelling and elegant narrative is a homage to the man he revered as a poet, scholar, hero and martyr. He tells Campion’s story with a novelist’s eye for detail, from his success as an Oxford scholar, through his travels…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141391502 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141391502 |
| Author: | Evelyn Waugh |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2013 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
Written with the verve and the dramatic fervour of the born storyteller
Written with the verve and the dramatic fervour of the born storyteller * The New York Times *
About The Author
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.
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