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(0)Hilaire Belloc
Author
Publisher
Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years is a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century. The book contains an introduction and eleven tales, all written in rhyming couplets. --Wikipedia
Author
Publisher
Duckworth & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A collection of sonnets and verse by Hilaire Belloc, a Franco-English writer and historian of the early twentieth century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong effect on his works. (Source: Wikipedia)
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts is an 1896 children's book written by Hilaire Belloc. Illustrated by Basil Temple Blackwood, the superficially naive verses give tongue-in-cheek advice to children. In the book, the animals tend to be sage-like, and the humans dull and self-satisfied. (Source: Wikipedia)
5) Tourcoing
Author
Publisher
STEPHEN SWIFT AND CO., LTD
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
This is a Project Gutenberg edition released in 2010.
In this book, Hilaire Belloc brings us his overview and perspective of the Battle of Tourcoing, which saw a Republican French army directed by General of Division Joseph Souham defend against an attack by a Coalition army led by Emperor Francis II and Austrian Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. The French army was temporarily led by Souham in the absence of its normal commander Jean-Charles...
6) Verses
Author
Publisher
Vail-Ballou Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Excerpt from the introduction:
"Hilaire Belloc is not the man to spend much time in analysing his own emotions; he is not, thank God, a poetical psychologist. Love songs, drinking songs, battle songs—it is with these primitive and democratic things that he is chiefly concerned.
But there is something more democratic than wine or love or war. That thing is Faith. And Hilaire Belloc’s part in increasing the sum of the world’s beauty would not...
Author
Publisher
Methuen & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, satirist, man of letters, and political activist. He is most notable for his Catholic faith, which had a strong impact on most of his works and his writing collaboration with G.K. Chesterton.
He was...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text, lift-the-flap and pop-up pages tell the story of Jim, a little boy who escapes at the zoo from his nurse and is eaten by a lion. First published in 1907, Belloc's wickedly funny poem describing the sad end of Jim is now fabulously illustrated by Mini Grey for this extra-special new edition.