Evelyn Waugh presented his biography of St. Edmund Campion, the Elizabethan poet, scholar and gentleman who became the haunted, trapped and murdered priest as a simple, perfectly true story of heroism and holiness.But it is written with a novelist’s eye for the telling incident and with all the elegance and feeling of a master of English prose. From the years of success as an Oxford scholar, to entry into the newly founded Society of Jesus and a professorship in Prague, Campion’s life was an inexorable progress towards the doomed mission to England. There followed pursuit, betrayal, a spirited defense of loyalty to the Queen, and a horrifying martyr’s death at Tyburn.
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 08/03/2012
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781586170981
Language: English
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