Edmund Campion - A Life

Klappentext 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.

Product details

• Authors: Evelyn Waugh
• Publisher: Ignatius Press USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.2012
• EAN: 9781586170981
• ISBN: 978-1-58617-098-1
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious, Biography / Autobiography