Two Lives: Edmund Campion and Ronald Knox [Paperback]

Evelyn Waugh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 12, 2002

Waugh wrote two biographies,both 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 A. Knox (1888-1957) was regarded as the most distinguished Anglican clerical convert to Catholicism since Newman. His literary output was huge, ranging from a monumental translation of the Vulgate to his much-admired crime novels that bear comparison with G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories. Waugh wrote an amusing and admiring biography of his famously witty friend.

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"Waugh’s biography is an amusing and admiring study...Penned with all the poetic verve of a born storyteller." -- Catholic Life, April 2002 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Evelyn Waugh was the author of many well-loved and bestselling novels, including Brideshead Revisited, Scoop, and the Sword of Honour trilogy. > --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 424 pages
• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (September 12, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0826464297
• ISBN-13: 978-0826464293
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,541,361 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A different Waugh, July 11, 2006

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This review is from: Two Lives: Edmund Campion and Ronald Knox (Continuum Compacts) (Paperback)

In this book we find a different Waugh, without his acustomed piercing humour. Two biographies, one of a saint and martyr an the other of a converted priest and scholar. It's very practical finding both works together in a single volume. Campion'life is a masterpiece of hagiography. In this kind of work it's common the lacking of literary excellence. Here we have a deep investigation offered to us in the best style. The life of Ronnie Knox -in spite of some observations we can find in Christopher Syke's biography of Waugh, very interesting in fact- we can living with him, and we cannot not loving him. We are obliged to think a lot about our own spiritual life and about the problems of catholic culture in last cantury.