Edmund Campion

Jesuit and Martyr

Evelyn Waugh

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Penguin Classics
02 January 2013

Biography: religious & spiritual; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

Waugh's singular biography of a sixteenth-century Jesuit martyr

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.

Vividly re-creating a time of persecution and surveillance, Waugh writes that 'the hunted, trapped murdered priest is our contemporary and Campion's voice sounds to us across the centuries'.

By: Evelyn Waugh
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 197
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 193g
ISBN: 9780141391502
ISBN 10: 0141391502
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 02 January 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Evelyn Waugh was born in Hampstead in 1903 and educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.