Written by Hilaire Belloc
Cautionary Tales for Children
by Hilaire BellocCautionary Tales for Children is a parody of 19th century cautionary tales, written by the Anglo-French writer Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc, who has written many comic verses for children. His notable work other than this book is The Bad Child's Book of Beasts. Cautionary Tales is a folklore, in which the narration begins after stati..
The Servile State
by Hilaire BellocThis book is written to maintain and prove the following truth:— That our free modern society in which the means of production are owned by a few being necessarily in unstable equilibrium, it is tending to reach a condition of stable equilibrium by the establishment of compulsory labour legally enforcible upon those who do not own the means of prod..
The Road
by Hilaire BellocThe Road is one of the great fundamental institutions of mankind. We forget this because we take it for granted. It seems to be so necessary and natural a part of all human life that we forget that it ever had an origin or development, or that it is as much the creation of man as the city and the laws. Not only is the Road one of the great human in..
Lambkin's Remains
by Hilaire BellocIt is without a trace of compunction or regret that I prepare to edit the few unpublished essays, sermons and speeches of my late dear friend, Mr. Lambkin. On the contrary, I am filled with a sense that my labour is one to which the clearest interests of the whole English people call me, and I have found myself, as the work grew under my hands, ful..
Mr. Clutterbuck's Election
by Hilaire BellocTowards the end of the late Queen Victoria's reign there resided in the suburban town of Croydon a gentleman of the name of Clutterbuck, who, upon a modest capital inherited from his father, contrived by various negotiations at his office in the City of London to gain an income of now some seven hundred, now more nearly a thousand, pounds in the ye..
The Aftermath Or Gleanings from a Busy Life
by Hilaire BellocThis work needs no apology. Its value to the English-speaking world is two-fold. It preserves for all time, in the form of a printed book, what might have been scattered in the sheets of ephemeral publications. It is so designed that these isolated monuments of prose and verse can be studied, absorbed, and, if necessary, copied by the young aspiran..
The River of London
by Hilaire BellocThrough the flats that bound the North Sea and shelve into it imperceptibly, merging at last with the shallow flood, and re-emerging in distant sandbanks and less conspicuous shoals, run facing each other two waterways far inland, which are funnels and entries, as it were, scoured by the tide.Each has at the end of the tideway a narrow, placid, inl..