Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)
Autor von Cautionary Tales for Children
Über den Autor
Hilaire Belloc, 1870 - 1953 Hilaire Belloc was born in France in 1870, educated at Oxford, and naturalized as a British subject in 1902. Although he began as a writer of humorous verse for children, his works include satire, poetry, history, biography, fiction, and many volumes of essays. With his mehr anzeigen close friend and fellow Catholic, G. K. Chesterton, Belloc founded the New Witness, a weekly newspaper opposing capitalism and free thought and supporting a philosophy known as distributism. The pair was so close in thought and association that George Bernard Shaw nicknamed them Chesterbelloc. During his life, Belloc published over 150 books. Today, however, he is best remembered for only a few works, most notably his light verse, such as Cautionary Tales (1907) and A Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896). Belloc died in 1953 from burns caused when his dressing gown caught fire from the hearth. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Hilaire Belloc
Characters of the Reformation: historical portraits of 23 men and women and their place in the great religious… (1918) 370 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church (1929) 154 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts | More Beasts for Worse Children | A Moral Alphabet (1961) 60 Exemplare
Cautionary Verses / New Cautionary Verses (Everyman's Library Children's Classics) (1997) 28 Exemplare
Biesterbuch für kleine böse Wichte. Und noch mehr Biester für noch bösere Wichte (1999) 18 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Hilaire Belloc: An Anthology of His Prose and Verse (1951) — Autor; Autor — 16 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
The eye-witness: being a series of descriptions and sketches in which it is attempted to reproduce (2006) 12 Exemplare
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts | More Beasts for Worse Children | Cautionary Tales (1924) 8 Exemplare
The Chanty of the Nona 7 Exemplare
Letters from Hilaire Belloc 6 Exemplare
An essay on the nature of contemporary England 4 Exemplare
The Aftermath / Lambkin's Remains 4 Exemplare
The aftermath;: Or, Gleanings from a busy life. Called upon the outer cover for purposes of sale, Calibans guide to… (2012) 3 Exemplare
The Fame of Blessed Thomas More: Being Addresses Delivered in His Honour in Chelsea, July 1929 (1929) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
The book of the Bayeux tapestry, presenting the complete work in a series of colour facsimiles (1914) 2 Exemplare
The Two Maps of Europe 2 Exemplare
A History of England, Volume 1: Pagan England. Catholic England I: The Dark Ages, B.C to A.D. 1066 2 Exemplare
The last days of the French monarchy 2 Exemplare
The highway and its vehicles 2 Exemplare
The Elements of The Great War 2 Exemplare
Collected Works 2 Exemplare
A History of England, Volume 2: Catholic England II. The Early Middle Ages A.D. 1066 to 1348 2 Exemplare
Why I Am, and Why I Am Not a Catholic 2 Exemplare
Mrs. Markham's new history of England Being an introduction for young people to the current history & institutions… (1926) 2 Exemplare
Essays of to-day and yesterday 2 Exemplare
Hilaire Belloc (portable library) 1 Exemplar
Sonnets and Verses 1 Exemplar
NEW CAUTIONARY TALES 1 Exemplar
A Revolução Francesa 1 Exemplar
At the Sign of the Lion: And Other Essays From the Books of Hilaire Belloc (Classic Reprint) (2015) 1 Exemplar
Caliban's Guide to Letters 1 Exemplar
Hilaire Belloc "4 Sussex Poems", Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard" [Sound recording]. Read by… — Autor — 1 Exemplar
O Estado Servil 1 Exemplar
More Beast for Worse Children 1 Exemplar
LibriVox Coffee Break Collection 29 - Dogs 1 Exemplar
Elizabethan commentary / by Hilaire Belloc 1 Exemplar
The Revival of Latin 1 Exemplar
Land and Water Map of the War 1 Exemplar
Louis XIV. 1 Exemplar
Prose and Verse 1 Exemplar
The verse of Hilaire Belloc 1 Exemplar
Chroniques. No. 5 1 Exemplar
Home 1 Exemplar
The Honest Man and the Devil 1 Exemplar
The Second Year of the War 1 Exemplar
The Alternative 1 Exemplar
Calendar 1 Exemplar
Songs of the South Country 1 Exemplar
Six British battles 1 Exemplar
Richelieu / Wolsey 1 Exemplar
The Collected Works of Hilaire Belloc: Historical Books, Economy Studies, Essays, Fiction & Poetry (2021) 1 Exemplar
The Complete Works of Hilaire Belloc 1 Exemplar
The Ferrer case 1 Exemplar
Le migliori prose 1 Exemplar
Historic Nuns 1 Exemplar
HILAIRE BELLOC 1 Exemplar
The Best of Hilaire Belloc 1 Exemplar
LA CRISIS DE NUESTRA CIVILIZACIÓN 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
Der Roman von Tristan und Isolde (1150) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 1,988 Exemplare, 23 Rezensionen
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 946 Exemplare, 7 Rezensionen
The Best Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis (2001) — Mitwirkender — 560 Exemplare, 11 Rezensionen
The Illustrated Treasury of Children's Literature, Volumes 1-2 (1955) — Mitwirkender — 471 Exemplare, 4 Rezensionen
The Children's Treasury: Best Loved Stories and Poems from Around the World (1987) — Mitwirkender — 153 Exemplare, 2 Rezensionen
Wenn Napoleon bei Waterloo gewonnen hätte. Und andere abwegige Geschichten. (1931) — Mitwirkender — 56 Exemplare, 3 Rezensionen
Flee to the Fields: The Founding Fathers of the Catholic Land Movement (2003) — Vorwort — 36 Exemplare
The English Way: Studies in English Sanctity from St. Bede to Newman (1933) — Mitwirkender — 32 Exemplare, 1 Rezension
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 12, August 1980 — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Inquisition: A Political and Military Study of Its Establishment (2003) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben — 3 Exemplare
Then and Now. A Selection of Articles, Stories & Poems, Taken from the First Fifty Numbers of ‘Now & Then’,… (1935) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult [excerpt] — Übersetzer — 1 Exemplar
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre René
- Andere Namen
- Belloc, Joseph-Pierre Hilaire
- Geburtstag
- 1870-07-27
- Todestag
- 1953-07-16
- Begräbnisort
- Church of Our Lady and St. Francis Churchyard, West Grinstead, West Sussex, England
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- UK
- Geburtsort
- La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Seine-et-Oise, France
- Sterbeort
- Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
- Todesursache
- from burns and shock following a fall he had while placing a log into a fireplace
- Wohnorte
- La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France
- Ausbildung
- Oratory School
Oxford University (BA|1895|Balliol College) - Berufe
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- Lowndes, Marie Belloc (sister)
Pitter, Ruth (protégé)
Parkes, Bessie Rayner (mother)
Priestley, Joseph (great-great-grandfather)
Swanton Belloc, Louise (grandmother) - Organisationen
- Fabian Society
UK Parliament - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Order of St Gregory The Great (Knight Commander)
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With the exception of a couple of train rides covering the last few miles of his entry into Milan and Siena due to his having nearly exhausted his funds and catching a lift on a peasant's cart for a few miles, Belloc covered the distance on foot. While he doesn't dwell on the mundane, I found it astonishing that he could make the attempt including a crossing of an Alpine pass in what he called cotton clothing. At one point the soles of his boots have detached themselves from the uppers and he eventually spends some his coin on a repair by a cobbler. It would appear that he lacked changes of clothing as well as boots. Although he managed for the most part to find local inns or farms where he could obtain a meal and a bed for the night, there is no mention (apart from fording a river) of his ever bathing. I do not suggest that the absence of evidence is evidence of absence, but that he recounts his meals and sleeping arrangements, such as they were, yet invites the reader to draw the inference that he had nothing more than what we might call a "sponge bath" for his occasional ablutions.
All of that said, the story of the pilgrimage is truly remarkable and a tribute to Belloc's physical and spiritual stamina. The text is enhanced with the reproduction of many sketches that he drew along the way of the mountainous obstacles he had to surmount, maps of various sections of the journey depicting his route and the available alternatives, and some of the local buildings, mainly churches he encountered along the way.
His account contains many reflections on the Europe of his lifetime and its history going back to the early Middle Ages. Without venturing to lecture on matters theological or referencing any teachings of discussions with the clergy, he is clearly an energetic devotee of the Catholic faith and a member in good standing of the Church triumphant. He includes a number of tales to entertain the reader among which I cite "The Story of the Devil and the Learned Man" in which a Faustian style bargain made with "The Adversary" has an entertaining outcome.
Belloc's prose style is unique and conveys both a facility for entertaining as well as enlightening the reader. The Path to Rome is at the least a "minor classic". I would include it among the "Great Books."… (mehr)