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Evelyn Waugh presented his biography of St. Edmund Campion, the Elizabethan poet, scholar and gentleman who became the haunted, trapped and murdered ...Show synopsisEvelyn 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.Hide synopsis
Description:Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, red top-stain....Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, red top-stain. With the dust jacket. Spine a little rolled, some bumps to edges of boards, but an excellent and startlingly bright copy. First edition, first impression. A very tricky book to find in genuinely nice condition.
Description:Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, red top-stain....Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, red top-stain. With the dust jacket. Gift inscription from the Countess Idina Brassey to the Priory of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Haywards Heath, to the front free endpaper, and with the Priory's bookplate on the front pastedown. Cloth a little rubbed and spotted, circular sticker residue to upper board, lower corner bumped, spine slightly rolled and faded, faint spotting to contents. A very good copy in the lightly rubbed and marked jacket. First edition, first impression. A very tricky book to find in genuinely nice condition.
I read this book as a companion to Joseph Pearce's The Quest for Shakespeare. Evelyn Waugh illuminates the Elizabethan era with this biography of Edmond Campion. What happens to a country when the intellectual institutions are not just closed, but destroyed; when books are burned; when art is defaced ...
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