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a.k.a. Joseph Pierre Hilaire Belloc

Author Code: FHBX

Born: Jul. 27, 1870 - La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France

Died: Jul. 16, 1953 - Guildford, Surrey, England

Belloc was educated at the Oratory School in Birmingham and Balliol College, Oxford. The French-born Belloc became a British citizen in 1902. He was elected to Parliament in 1906 on the Liberal ticket as member for Salford and served until 1910. In 1895, he published Verses and Sonnets and followed in 1896 with The Bad Child's Book of Beasts, which launched him on a literary career that would eventually lead him to be recognized as one of the most versatile writers of the early 20th century. Belloc was at ease with light verse as well as lucid essays, historical interpretation and humourous satire. Among his best known works are The Modern Traveller (1898), Danton (1899), Robespierre (1901), The Path to Rome (1902). Mr. Burden (1904), Cautionary Tales (1907), The Four Men (1912), Europe and the Faith (1920), The Cruise of the "Nona" (1925) and Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (1932). Belloc was a prolific writer whose work also included hunddreds of essays, poems and criticism. He was a great friend and collaborator of G.K. Chesterton. Belloc suffered a stroke in 1942 and never completely recovered, thus ending his literary career.

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FHBX005

Europe and The Faith

1920

584k

FHBX001

First and Last

	King Lear
	The Absence of the Past
	The Battle of Hastings
	The Captain of Industry
	On Cheeses
	Companions of Travel
	The Decline of a State
	On the Decline of the Book
	The End Of The World
	On Entries
	On Error
	The Excursion
	The Eye-Openers
	The Game of Cards
	The Great Sight
	On a Great Wind
	On Historical Evidence
	The Inheritance of Humour
	The Inventor
	José Maria de Heredia
	The Letter
	The Lost Things
	The Lunatic
	Mr. The Duke: The Man of Malplaquet
	Normandy and the Normans
	The Old Gentlemans Opinions
	The Old Things
	On Past Greatness
	The Public
	On the Reading of History
	Reality
	The Regret
	The Reveillon
	The Reward of Letters
	The Roman Roads in Picardy
	On the Sources of Rivers
	St. Patrick
	The Tide
	The Victory
	The Views of England
	On Weighing Anchor

1911

110

555k

FHBX007

The Free Press

1918

278k

FHBX008

Hills and the Sea

	The Arena
	Arles
	At the Sign of the Lion
	The Autumn and the Fall of Leaves
	The Canigou
	Carcassonne
	The Cerdagne
	The Channel
	The Coronation
	Delft
	The Departure
	The Election
	On Ely
	A Family of the Fens
	The First Days March
	The Good Woman
	The Griffin
	The Guns
	The Harbour in the North
	The Idea of a Pilgrimage
	The Inn of the Margeride
	The Looe Stream
	Lynn
	On Mails
	The Man and His Wood
	The Man of the Desert
	The Mowing of a Field
	The North Sea
	The Onion-Eater
	The Pyrenean Hive
	The Return to England
	The Roman Road
	Roncesvalles
	The Sea-wall of the Wash
	The Singer
	The Slant off the Land
	The Valley of the Rother
	The Wing of Dalua

1906

108

570k

FHBX006

The Historic Thames

1907

438k

FHBX002

On Nothing and Kindred Subjects

	On Advertisement
	On The Approach of An Awful Doom
	On A Child Who Died
	On Coming to An End
	On Conversations in Trains
	On Death
	On The Departure of a Guest
	On A Dog and a Man Also
	On A Faery Castle
	On A Fisherman and the Quest of Peace
	On Getting Respected in Inns and Hotels
	On A Hermit Whom I Knew
	On A House
	On Ignorance
	On The Illness of My Muse
	On Jingoes: In The Shape of a Warning
	On Lords
	On A Lost Manuscript
	On A Man and His Burden
	On A Man Who Was Protected By Another Man
	On National Debts
	On The Pleasure of Taking Up One's Pen
	On Railways and Things
	On The Return of the Dead
	On A Rich Man Who Suffered
	On A Southern Harbour
	On Tea
	On Them
	Of An Unknown Country
	On A Winged Horse and the Exile Who Rode Him
	On A Young Man and an Older Man

1908

501k

FHBX004

The Path To Rome (Illustrated)

1902

136

5082k

FHBX003

On Something

	A Blue Book
	On Bridges
	Caedwalla
	The Death of Wandering Peter
	The Empire Builder
	On Experience
	A Force in Gaul
	His Character
	Home
	On the Hotel At Palma and A Proposed Guide-book
	On Immortality
	In Patria
	The Ironmonger
	Letter of Advice and Apology to A Young Burglar
	The Monkey Question: An Appeal to Common Sense
	A Norfolk Man
	On A Notebook
	The Odd People
	Perigeux of the Perigord
	A Plea for the Simpler Drama
	The Portrait of A Child
	The Position
	The Relic
	On Sacramental Things
	On Thruppenny Bits
	The Tree of Knowledge
	A Unit of England
	On Unknown People
	On A Van Tromp
	The Way to Fairyland

1910

533k

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