![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. His biography of the Catholic martyr, Edmund Campion - in many respects a distinguished performance - is marred by a partisanship which flagrantly distorts Elizabethan history. In 1581 Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest working underground in Protestant England, was found guilty of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. When he returned to England, he was arrested, tortured, crippled, required to defend his religious faith in debate and subsequently hung, drawn and quartered for treason. ![]() 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, Evelyn Waugh - author of A Handful of Dust, Scoop, Vile Bodies, Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honour trilogy - writes that 'the hunted, trapped murdered priest is our contemporary and Campion's voice sounds to us across the centuries'. Edmund Campion was a notable English Oxford scholar that left England to join the Jesuits. ![]() Evelyn Waugh's compelling and elegant narrative is a homage to the man he revered as a poet, scholar, hero and martyr. ![]()
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