Hilaire Belloc Books


A General Sketch of the European War - The First Phase

Hilaire Belloc

It is the object of this book, and those which will succeed it in the same series, to put before the reader the main lines of the European War as it proceeds. Each such part must necessarily be comple..

First and Last

Hilaire Belloc

First and Last is a collection of essays and short works by Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc, an Anglo-French writer and historian and one of the most prolific writers in England during the earl..

The Servile State

Hilaire Belloc

Society having reached such a condition would be released from its present internal strains and would have taken on a form which would be stable: that is, capable of being indefinitely prolonged witho..

The Road

Hilaire Belloc

A road system, once established, develops at its points of concentration the nerve centres of the society it serves; and we remark that the material rise and decline of a state are better measured by ..

Lambkin's Remains

Hilaire Belloc

The acute eye of friendship and sympathy, coupled with the instincts of a scholar and a gentleman, perceived my irritation, and in the evening Lambkin uttered the memorable words that I have quoted. I..

Mr. Clutterbuck's Election

Hilaire Belloc

Mr. Boyle filled his glass again with whiskey and waited, but Mr. Clutterbuck, who had ever appreciated the importance of sobriety in the relations of commerce, confined himself to occasional sips at ..

The Aftermath Or Gleanings from a Busy Life

Hilaire Belloc

This 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 pub..

The River of London

Hilaire Belloc

On the contrary, the note of the approach to London nowadays from the Lower Thames is a note peculiarly and strongly modern. It is as though the abnormal expansion of our perilous Industrialism in the..