Description
| Product ID: | 9780141391502 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Title: | Edmund Campion: Jesuit and Martyr |
| Authors: | Author: Evelyn Waugh |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Biography: religious and spiritual, Biography: religious & spiritual, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, c 1500 to c 1600 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. This title tells Campion's story. 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 around Europe, his doomed secret mission to England and on to his capture and dramatic trial. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-08-02 |
