Author:Hilaire Belloc

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Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)

See biography, quotes. One of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. His style and personality during later life complemented the nickname he received in childhood, "Old Thunder."

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Nonfiction 1.1.1 Biographies 1.1.2 Essays 1.1.2.1 Collections of essays 1.1.3 Economics 1.2 Fiction 1.3 Poetry 1.4 1920 – 1929 1.5 1930 – 1939 1.6 1940 – 1953 1.7 Posthumous

[edit] Works

[edit] Nonfiction

• At the Sign of the Lion (1916)
• Avril. Essays on the French Renaissance (1904)
• The Battleground: Syria and Palestine, The Seedplot of Religion (1936)
• The Book of the Bayeux tapestry (1914)
• Caliban's Guide to Letters (1903)

  also titled The aftermath or Gleanings from a busy life

• A Companion to Mr. Wells's "Outline of History" (1926)
• Catholicism and Socialism: Second Series (1910)
• A Change in the Cabinet (1909)
• A Change in the Cabinet (1915)
• The Crisis Of Our Civilisation (1937)
• The Crusades : The World's Debate (1937)
• Esto Perpetua: Algerian Studies and Impressions (1906)
• Europe And The Faith (1920)
• The Eye-Witness (1908)
• First and last (1911)
• The Free Press (1918)
• The French Revolution (1911)
• The French Revolution (1925)
• A General Sketch of the European War, the First Phase (1915)
• A General Sketch of the European War, The Second Phase (1916)
• The Girondin (1911)
• The Great Heresies (1938)
• The Great Inquiry; faithfully reported by Hilaire Belloc and ornamented with sharp cuts drawn on the spot (1903)
• Hills and the Sea (1906)
• The Historic Thames (1907)
• History of England (1912)
• History of England (1915)
• The House of Commons and Monarchy (1920)
• The Jews (1922)
• Lambkin's remains (1900)
• Land & Water; The World's War Vol. II (1914)
• The Last Days of the French monarchy (1916)
• Miniatures of French History (1926)
• The Modern Traveller (1898)
• More Peers (1911)
• Mr. Clutterbuck's Election (1908)
• The Old Road: From Canterbury to Winchester (1904)
• Paris (1900)
• Paris, Its Sites, Monuments and History (1898)
• The Path To Rome (1902)
• The Party System (1911)
• The Pyrenees (1909)
• Six British Battles (1931)
• A Shorter History of England (1934)
• The Stane Street: a monograph (1913)
• Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church (1929)
• Sussex (1906)
• The Two Maps of Europe (1915)
• Warfare in England (1913)

[edit] Biographies

• Characters Of The Reformation (1936)
• Charles the First, King of England (1933)
• Cranmer (1931)
• Danton; a study (1899)
• Emmanuel Burden, Merchant (1904)
• James II (1928)
• Joan of Arc (1930)
• The Last Rally: A Story of Charles II (1939)
• Marie Antoinette (1909)
• Milton (1935)
• Napoleon (1932)
• Oliver Cromwell (1927)
• Richelieu (1929)
• Robespierre (1901)
• William the Conqueror (1933)
• Wolsey (1930)

[edit] Essays

• An Essay on the Nature of Contemporary England (1937)

[edit] Collections of essays

• Belloc Essays (1955)
• Distributist Perspectives: Essays On Economics of Justice And Charity (2004)
• Essays of a Catholic Layman in England (1931)
• Essays of Today and Yesterday (1926)
• On Anything (1910)
• On Everything (1909)
• On Nothing and Kindred Subjects (1908)
• On Something (1910)
• The Silence Of The Sea and Other Essays (1940)
• This and That and the Other (1912)

[edit] Economics

• Distributist Perspectives: Essays On Economics of Justice And Charity (2004)
• Economics for Helen (1924)
• The Servile State (1912)
• The Restoration Of Property (1936)

[edit] Fiction

• The Cruise of the Nona (1925)
• The Four Men: a Farrago (1911)
• The Green Overcoat (1912)
• The Man Who Made Gold (1930)
• Pongo and the Bull (1910)
• The River of London (1912)

[edit] Poetry

• A Moral Alphabet (1899)
• The Bad Child's Book Of Beasts (1896)
• Cautionary Tales for Children (1907)
• Collected Verse (1958)
• Complete Verse (1970)
• More Beasts for Worse Children (1897)
• Sonnets and Verse (1945)
• Verses and Sonnets (1896)
• Verses (1910)

[edit] 1920 – 1929

• The Mercy of Allah (1922)
• The Road (1923)
• The Contrast (1923)
• On (1923)
• This and that and the other (1925)
• Mr. Petre (1925)
• The Campaign of 1812 and the Retreat from Moscow (1925)
• Mr. Belloc Still Objects (1926)
• The Catholic Church and History (1926)
• Short Talks with the Dead and others (1926)
• The emerald of Catherine the Great (1926)
• Mrs. Markham's New History of England (1926)
• The Highway and Its Vehicles (1926)
• The Haunted House (1927)
• Towns of Destiny (1927)
• Do We Agree?: A Debate Between G. K. Chesterton And Bernard Shaw, with Hilaire Belloc in the Chair (1928)
• Many Cities (1928)
• M. Wells et Dieu. Des poèmes et des essais (1928)
• But Soft - We Are Observed! (1928)
• How the Reformation Happened (1928)
• Belinda: a tale of affection in youth and age (1928)
• A Conversation with an Angel: and other essays (1928)
• The Chanty of the Nona (1928)
• The Missing Masterpiece (1929)

[edit] 1930 – 1939

• The Catholic Church and Current Literature (1930)
• Pauline - Favorite Sister of Napoleon (1930)
• New Cautionary Tales (1930)
• A Conversation with a Cat: and others (1931)
• On Translation (Oxford: Clarendon, 1931)
• Hilaire Belloc (Augustan books of Modern Poetry)
• One Hundred and one Ballades (1931)
• Nine Nines or Novenas from a Chinese Litany of Odd Numbers (1931)
• The Postmaster General (1932)
• Saulieu Of The Morvan (1932)
• The Question and the Answer (1932)
• Ladies and Gentlemen: For Adults Only and Mature at That (1932)
• An Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (1932)
• Below bridges (1933)
• The Tactics and Strategy of the Great Duke of Marlborough (1933)
• How We Got The Bible (1934)
• Hilaire Belloc (1935)
• The Hedge and the Horse (1936)
• The County of Sussex (1936)
• Stories, essays, poems (1938)
• Monarchy: a study of Louis XIV (1938)
• Return to the Baltic (1938)
• The Church and Socialism (1938)
• The Case of Dr. Coulton (1938)
• On sailing the sea; a collection of seagoing writings (1939)

[edit] 1940 – 1953

• On the Place of Gilbert Chesterton in English Letters (1940)
• The Catholic and the War (1940)
• The Alternative (1940)
• Elizabethan Commentary (1942)
• Places (1942)
• The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bedier (1945)
• Selected Essays (1948)
• An Anthology of his Prose and Verse (1951)
• World Conflict (1951)
• Songs of the South Country (1951)

[edit] Posthumous

• The Verse of Hilaire Belloc (1954)
• One Thing and Another. A Miscellany from his Uncollected Essays selected by Patrick Cahill (1955)
• Letters From Hilaire Belloc (1958)
• Advice: Hilaire Belloc's advice on wine, food and other matters (1960)
• Belloc: A Biographical Anthology (1970)
• Hilaire Belloc's Prefaces (1971)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. They may be copyrighted outside the U.S. (see Help:Public domain). However, works published before 1923 may be in the public domain in countries where they would ordinarily be copyrighted (due to the term of 70 years [or less] after the author's death having not yet expired) but whose legislature has waived copyright by accepting the rule of the shorter term.