num_pages: 216
description: Evelyn 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.
language: English
title: Edmund Campion: A Life
titlecomplete: Edmund Campion: A Life
genres: Classics, Christianity, Historical, Catholic, History, Religion, Biography Memoir, Biography, Christian, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 494
awards: awardedAt: -1072972800000
name: Hawthornden Prize
publisher: Ignatius Press