Edmund Campion

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.

As a comic writer, satirist and master of English prose, EVELYN WAUGH (1903-1966) has been admired more than any other novelist of his generation. His celebrated novels include "Vile Bodies, A Handful of Dust" and "Scoop." He also wrote numerous travel books and biographies, as well as his "Diaries" and "Letters."

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