Pagina principaleGruppiConversazioniAltroStatistiche
Cerca nel Sito
Questo sito utilizza i cookies per fornire i nostri servizi, per migliorare le prestazioni, per analisi, e (per gli utenti che accedono senza fare login) per la pubblicità. Usando LibraryThing confermi di aver letto e capito le nostre condizioni di servizio e la politica sulla privacy. Il tuo uso del sito e dei servizi è soggetto a tali politiche e condizioni.

Risultati da Google Ricerca Libri

Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.

Edmund Campion: Scholar, Priest, Hero and…
Sto caricando le informazioni...

Edmund Campion: Scholar, Priest, Hero and Martyr (Biographies S.) (edizione 1987)

di Evelyn Waugh (Autore)

UtentiRecensioniPopolaritàMedia votiCitazioni
516346,896 (3.76)21
This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textualvariants. The edition's General Editor is Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh's grandson and editor of the twelve-volume Personal Writings sequence.Evelyn Waugh originally wrote his Edmund Campion to thank Martin D'Arcy, SJ, and to help with the building of Campion Hall, but his experience of Communist oppression in Mexico and Croatia transformed his understanding of Campion's life, revealing Campion less as an Elizabethan martyr than as partof 'the unending war' between the church and the totalitarian state. Waugh wrote a passionate new 'Preface' for the American edition of 1946 and made important changes to each of the three subsequent editions, culminating in the beautiful third edition of 1961. This new edition provides extensivebiographical and contextual notes to help the reader unfamiliar with early modern history and records the many manuscript revisions and the book's reception both sides of the Atlantic. The introduction explores the personal impact of Waugh's friendship with the Asquith and Herbert families andexamines the cultural context of a brief period of confidence for English Catholicism, energized by the canonization process (in which Waugh's own daughters were involved), which coincided with the publication of the five editions of the book from 1935 to 1961. Waugh received the Hawthornden Prizefor the book just before he took part in the opening of Campion Hall; the book offered him a Jesuit hearth in the 'household of the faith' and gave a new theological direction to his writing, characterized by Brideshead Revisited, Helena, The Sword of Honour trilogy, and Ronald Knox. The bookemerges as one of the best objets d'Arcy, which Waugh continued to give to friends till his death.… (altro)
Utente:A.Hine
Titolo:Edmund Campion: Scholar, Priest, Hero and Martyr (Biographies S.)
Autori:Evelyn Waugh (Autore)
Info:Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated (1987), Edition: New edition, 176 pages
Collezioni:Unread, La tua biblioteca
Voto:
Etichette:Nessuno

Informazioni sull'opera

Edmund Campion di Evelyn Waugh

Nessuno
Sto caricando le informazioni...

Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro.

Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.

» Vedi le 21 citazioni

Mostra 3 di 3
I thought this book was great. It's not presented as a scholarly work, but rather a more informal account of the life of Edmund Campion, an English Jesuit priest who was hanged, drawn & quartered under the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The book also gives a little background on the Reformation, especially its effects in England, and events in the wider world. My one word of caution about this book is that it has a marked pro-Catholic bias. Edmund Campion is considered a saint by the Catholic Church, and Waugh wrote the book after he converted to Catholicism, so that's to be expected. But if you won't be offended by that, I definitely think it's worth a read.
  christina_reads | Mar 11, 2009 |
3629. Edmund Campion, by Evelyn Waugh (read Sept 16 2002) I read this because it won the Hawthornden Prize (a prize awarded annually to an English writer "for the best work of imaginative literature") in 1936, bringing to 8 the number of Hawthornden winning books I've read, and all 8 have been worthwhile. This book tells in unpretentious but vivid style the life of St. Edmund Campion, killed on Dec 1, 1581, after being sentenced to "be hanged and let down alive, and your privy parts cut off, and your entrails taken out and burnt in your sight then your heade to be cut off and your body divided into four parts." Thank God for the Eighth Amendment, eh? A well worth reading book. ( )
  Schmerguls | Nov 17, 2007 |
Biography, Tudor, Evelyn Waugh ( )
  ChrisSterry | Sep 23, 2009 |
Mostra 3 di 3
nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione

Appartiene alle Collane Editoriali

Premi e riconoscimenti

Devi effettuare l'accesso per contribuire alle Informazioni generali.
Per maggiori spiegazioni, vedi la pagina di aiuto delle informazioni generali.
Titolo canonico
Titolo originale
Titoli alternativi
Data della prima edizione
Personaggi
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
Luoghi significativi
Eventi significativi
Film correlati
Epigrafe
Dedica
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
To Martin C. D'Arcy, S.J. Sometime Master of Campion Hall, Oxford
Incipit
Citazioni
Ultime parole
Nota di disambiguazione
Redattore editoriale
Elogi
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
Lingua originale
DDC/MDS Canonico
LCC canonico

Risorse esterne che parlano di questo libro

Wikipedia in inglese (1)

This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textualvariants. The edition's General Editor is Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh's grandson and editor of the twelve-volume Personal Writings sequence.Evelyn Waugh originally wrote his Edmund Campion to thank Martin D'Arcy, SJ, and to help with the building of Campion Hall, but his experience of Communist oppression in Mexico and Croatia transformed his understanding of Campion's life, revealing Campion less as an Elizabethan martyr than as partof 'the unending war' between the church and the totalitarian state. Waugh wrote a passionate new 'Preface' for the American edition of 1946 and made important changes to each of the three subsequent editions, culminating in the beautiful third edition of 1961. This new edition provides extensivebiographical and contextual notes to help the reader unfamiliar with early modern history and records the many manuscript revisions and the book's reception both sides of the Atlantic. The introduction explores the personal impact of Waugh's friendship with the Asquith and Herbert families andexamines the cultural context of a brief period of confidence for English Catholicism, energized by the canonization process (in which Waugh's own daughters were involved), which coincided with the publication of the five editions of the book from 1935 to 1961. Waugh received the Hawthornden Prizefor the book just before he took part in the opening of Campion Hall; the book offered him a Jesuit hearth in the 'household of the faith' and gave a new theological direction to his writing, characterized by Brideshead Revisited, Helena, The Sword of Honour trilogy, and Ronald Knox. The bookemerges as one of the best objets d'Arcy, which Waugh continued to give to friends till his death.

Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche

Descrizione del libro
Riassunto haiku

Discussioni correnti

Nessuno

Copertine popolari

Link rapidi

Voto

Media: (3.76)
0.5
1 1
1.5
2 4
2.5
3 7
3.5 1
4 9
4.5 3
5 9

Sei tu?

Diventa un autore di LibraryThing.

Penguin Australia

Una edizione di quest'opera è stata pubblicata da Penguin Australia.

» Pagina di informazioni sull'editore

 

A proposito di | Contatto | LibraryThing.com | Privacy/Condizioni d'uso | Guida/FAQ | Blog | Negozio | APIs | TinyCat | Biblioteche di personaggi celebri | Recensori in anteprima | Informazioni generali | 203,242,042 libri! | Barra superiore: Sempre visibile