{"product_id":"complete-works-of-evelyn-waugh-evelyn-waugh-9780198817529","title":"Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh: Edmund Campion: Volume 17","description":"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part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variants. The edition's General Editor is Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh's grandson and editor of the twelve-volume Personal Writings sequence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvelyn Waugh originally wrote his \u003cem\u003eEdmund Campion\u003c\/em\u003e 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 part of '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 extensive biographical 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 and examines 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 Prize for 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 \u003cem\u003eBrideshead Revisited\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHelena\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Sword of Honour\u003c\/em\u003e trilogy, and \u003cem\u003eRonald Knox\u003c\/em\u003e. The book emerges as one of the best \u003cem\u003eobjets d'Arcy\u003c\/em\u003e, which Waugh continued to give to friends till his death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Evelyn Waugh, Gerard Kilroy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198817525\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198817529\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.60w x 1.90d","brand":"Evelyn Waugh","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44069589909759,"sku":"9780198817529","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_821d29da-ee4a-4443-ad6b-ba2cc496f2c3.jpg?v=1685425494","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/complete-works-of-evelyn-waugh-evelyn-waugh-9780198817529","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}