Edmund Campion: Jesuit and Martyr (9) - Hardcover

Waugh, Evelyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0141193654 ISBN 13: 9780141193656

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2011

Synopsis

Edmund Campion (1540-1581) was a Jesuit priest who, in the turbulent years before the Spanish Armada, was charged with treason and executed. Waugh's book is an elegant homage to a man he revered as a hero and a martyr.

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Review:

Written with the verve and the dramatic fervour of the born storyteller (The New York Times)

About the Author:

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903. His first novel, Decline and Fall, was published in 1928 and it was soon followed by: Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). He travelled extensively, served in the Royal Marines and the Royal Horse Guards and continued to write, winning many prestigious literary awards. Brideshead Revisited was first published in 1945. Evelyn Waugh died in 1966.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0141193654
• ISBN 13: 9780141193656
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256