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Edmund Campion: A Life

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.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 216
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781586170431
  • Genres
  • biography, history, catholic, religion, classics, christianity, christian
  • Release date
  • 2005