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...
Evelyn Waugh presented his biography of St. Edmund Campion, the Elizabethan poet, scholar and gentleman who became the haunted, trapped and murdered p...
Auch Siege kann man verlieren. Waughs Opus magnum nach Jahren endlich wieder auf Deutsch verfügbar, in revidierter Übersetzung. 2001 für die BBC verfilmt mit Daniel Craig in der Hauptrolle (Drehbuch: William Boyd).
Auch Siege kann man verlieren. Waughs Opus magnum nach Jahren endlich wieder auf Deutsch verfügbar, in revidierter Übersetzung. 2001 für die BBC ve...
