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He was a poet, a polemicist, and a prose stylist without peer, but Hilaire Belloc (1870-1954) was first and above all a mighty champion of the Catholic faith. With his brave (and sometimes brash) defenses of Catholic civilization, he taught an entire generation of Catholics never to stand for being treated as second-class citizens in the predominantly Protestant Anglosphere. Today, with the Faith once again suffering scorn and contempt from all sides, it is time to re-discover this Catholic champion. The Essential Belloc; draws upon the prolific writer's works (he authored more than 140 books, plus countless articles, pamphlets, and letters) to provide a comprehensive overview of his ideas, style, and personality. More than just a collection of quotes, these pages offer rich samplings from Belloc's writings, affording you a solid introduction to his thoughts on: - The foundational link between European culture and the Catholic faith - The anti-Catholic historical myths that the English-speaking world has come to accept as fact - The limits and dangers of science that has abandoned faith in God - The latent power and future menace of militant Islam - The characteristic faults of political and economic systems that deviate from Catholic principles - The particular charms of places throughout the world: their towns and roads, their churches and inns - The love of good food, wine, and ale, and the songs of camaraderie that go with them And more plus delightful examples of Belloc's poetry and wit. Belloc himself once remarked that genius is the ability to think in a very large number of categories. In The Essential Belloc you will marvel at how well he fits that very definition, and be edified by the breadth of his brilliance and its continuing relevance for the modern world. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1897.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1941, The Silence of the Sea is not only one of Hilaire Belloc's last books it is also one of his finest. With his usual wit and eloquence, Belloc covers a wide range of subjects - art, history, literature, travel, politics and religion - in this collection of 48 scintillating essays. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1901.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1905.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Award-winning illustrator Mini Grey turns her inimitable hand to Hilaire Belloc's classic cautionary tale of Jim: who ran away from his Nurse and was 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. This is a perfect gift with much to explore... ... Read more

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England has been built up upon the framework of her rivers, and, in that pattern, the principal line has been the line of the Thames. ... Read more

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Absolutely Delightful
This was considered a minor classic during the early part of the twentieth century.Nothing better has replaced it--we've just gotten stupider.This book is the type of remarkable work that one rarely sees nowadays: it's a geogaphic description of the Thames from its source to the sea and the human history tied up with the river (as well as a debunking of some of the myths of the reformation).This farrago is really a forerunner of the psycho-geography written by Peter Ackroyd (such as his vastly entertaining work, London).A great book. ... Read more

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Meet Matilda, whose unfortunate habit of lying leads her to an unusually unfortunate fate. Grinning, sneering, and smirking, Matilda is the timeless sister of the boy who cried wolf in this hilarious Victorian cautionary tale with deliciously wicked two-color illustrations. ... Read more

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Ummm, people - this is the poem by Belloc, not the book by Dahl
Apparently whoever put this page together doesn't grasp that it's about the poem by Hilaire Belloc, as illustrated by Posy Simmonds, not about Roald Dahl's book.

The poem is hilarious - one of Belloc's Awful Warning poems - and the illustrations of a beady-eyed, sneaky looking Matilda set it off beautifully.I recommend it highly!

A Surprisingly Awful Book
Obviously from the German style of fairy tales, this book is beautifully illustrated, but somewhat horrifying for adult sensibilities.Children, however, did not seem nearly as horrified as the adults who read this book, suggesting the pictures of Madeline burning alive in her apartment was just part of the moral for them.An interesting read although not one I could wholeheartedly recommend to be read to children. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1904Original Publisher: A. ConstableSubjects: EnglandRoadsHistory / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great BritainReference / AtlasesTravel / Europe / GeneralTravel / Europe / Great BritainTravel / Maps ... Read more

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A striking portrait of Charles I, this book also looks closely at the role that the burgeoning financial powers played in shaping European politics and the effects that these powers had on the English monarchy during his reign. Belloc also explores the consequences of these effects for Europe generally. At the same time, it is a detailed study of the man who was Charles I with all his strengths, all his weaknesses. Belloc's sense of history sheds light on how those strengths and weaknesses contributed to action or inaction by Charles and how those actions affected England and the rest of Europe. ... Read more

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History for the philosopher
This book is a wonderful historical (perhaps meta-historical would be more accurate) account of the overthrow of England's Charles I, and the larger English Civil War.It is not like any modern history.It makes you ask larger questions.

Reading this I became quite conflicted - coming to see the regicide of Charles Stuart
(St. Charles The Martyr) as the culmination of the Protestant Reformation.Yet always previously thinking that had been a triumph for the Saxon peasantry over Norman monarchy.I'm still conflicted - about the history - but not about this book.

Belloc also paints a portrait of how money overtook heredity as power over people's lives.And how money worked against the nation. This is highly relevant today.

Belloc is a captivating writer perfect for someone with a philosphical approach to history.This is a subject that was of little interest to me when I started but now is fascinating and relevant.

Highly Biased
Hilaire Belloc's 1933 biography of Charles I is one in a series of historical biographies written by the controversial author.Belloc's historical works have often been discounted as careless or blatantly inaccurate. Indeed, there are no footnotes, no endnotes, nor even an index to his biography of Charles I.The forward and the introduction do an admirable job trying to convince the reader that Belloc's work is indeed serious historical study, and I have to admit that after reading the forward and the introduction I was looking forward to a more literary, if not wholly accurate, narrative of the life of Charles I.

Sadly, the narrative is not compelling.Belloc takes a fascinating subject and makes him, in many places, quite boring by focusing on his overriding political theme: that the landed aristocracy was essentially greedy, and that the monarch stood in the way of the aristocracy's attempt to gain more wealth.In furthering this theme, the biography is filled with an open disdain for Parliament, and a desperate attempt to discount any other causes of the civil war.For example, Belloc attempts to significantly downplay the impact of Puritanism (and religion in general) as a cause of the civil war.

Belloc's focus on politics also ignores other highly interesting personal aspects of the life of Charles Stuart.Take, for example, the episode of Charles' youth where Charles and Buckingham travel, incognito, to the continent to court the Spanish infanta.Belloc dwells on the political failure of this endeavor, and misses completely the highly compelling personal drama.Likewise, Belloc does not explore the King's personal relationships with his sister or wife. This book is solely an exploration of the political climate of the reign of Charles I; it is not a full exploration of the life (especially personal life) of Charles.While the causes of the civil war and the political climate of the time are obviously important and interesting, Belloc fails to shed any light on Charles Stuart as a flesh and blood person.This failure, in my opinion, produces an incomplete picture as to how and why the monarchy was overthrown.

Belloc's other prejudices, in addition to his disdain for Parliament, creep into the book.Throughout the last third of the book Belloc makes disparaging comments about Puritans (Belloc was a staunch Catholic).As another example, Belloc is openly hostile in his few comments on the reign of Elizabeth I.If you were to believe Belloc, Elizabeth was an old fool who, rightly says Belloc, left the important business of governing the country to men (the Cecils).This is not surprising, as Belloc once said "I am opposed to women's voting . . . I call it immoral, because I think the bringing of one's women, one's mothers and sisters into the political arena, disturbs the relations between the sexes."

If you are truly interested in Charles I, do not waste your time with this highly biased biography.Instead, read Pauline Gregg's fascinating work on the life of Charles Stuart.

Belloc on the Killing of the King
Peerless historian Hilaire Belloc here describes with his wonderful and virile prose the saga of Charles I of England.In a way, the regicide of Charles at the hands of Protestant revolutionaries prefigured the later acts of the Jacobins in murdering Louis XVI and the Bolsheviks in murdering Czar Saint Nicholas II.The three revolutionary activities had in common their culminating scene, that being the killing of the King.Of course, there are differences.The Bolsheviks killed not just the saintly Romanov, but his entire family, and left behind their occult sigil on the blood stained walls of the cellar in which their ghastly deed was performed.In any case, Belloc begins the saga here with the life and death of Charles Stuart, his regicide being one of the culminating acts of the Protestant Revolution and one of the initiating acts of the international conspiracy against authority that is still, sadly, ongoing.For the serious student of history, this is a must read. ... Read more

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Includes a frontis portrait plate and fifteen additional b&w plates. The title page is printed in red and black. The author states "This is not a life of Cranmer; it is a study of his character and motives, with exposition of, and emphasis upon, his literary genius and its legacy to the Church of England." Thomas Cranmer gained favor with King Henry VIII due to the course which Cranmer advocated with regard to the divorce of Queen Catherine. In 1533, he was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury. With Thomas Cromwell, Cranmer supported the translation of the Bible into English. In 1545 he wrote a litany that is still used in the church. 333 pages, index. ... Read more