Two Lives by Evelyn Waugh

Two Lives by Evelyn Waugh

Waugh wrote two biographies of very different English Roman Catholics. Edmund Campion (1540-1581) was a Jesuit priest who, in the turbulent years before the Spanish Armada, was charged with treason and executed. Waugh's book is an elegant homage to a man he revered as a hero and a martyr. Ronald Knox (1888-1957) was regarded as the most distinguished Anglican Clerical convert to Catholicism since Newman. His literary output was huge, ranging from monumental translation of the Vulgate Bible to his much-admired crime novels that bear comparison to the Father Brown stories by G.K. Chesterton. Waugh's biography is an amusing and admiring study of his famously witty friend.

"'Done with the verve and dramatic fervor of the born storyteller' The New York Times review of Edmund Campion 1936; 'splendid..prose of classic distinction...' The New York Times review of Ronald Knox 1960"

Evelyn Waugh was the author of many well-loved and best-selling novels including Brideshead Revisited, Scoop and the Sword of Honour trilogy.

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ISBN 13	9780826476333
ISBN 10	0826476333
Title	Two Lives
Author	Evelyn Waugh
Series	Continuum Compact Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2005-05-05
Number of pages	426
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