Author:Hilaire Belloc

Hilaire Belloc
(1870–1953)

Hilaire Belloc

Works

Nonfiction

• At the Sign of the Lion (1916)
• Avril. Essays on the French Renaissance (1904)
• The Battleground: Syria and Palestine, The Seedplot of Religion (1936)
• The Book of the Bayeux tapestry (1914)
• Caliban's Guide to Letters (1903)

  also titled The aftermath or Gleanings from a busy life

• A Companion to Mr. Wells's "Outline of History" (1926)
• Catholicism and Socialism: Second Series (1910)
• A Change in the Cabinet (1909)
• A Change in the Cabinet (1915)
• The Crisis Of Our Civilisation (1937)
• The Crusades : The World's Debate (1937)
• Esto Perpetua: Algerian Studies and Impressions (1906)
• Europe And The Faith (1920)
• The Eye-Witness (1908)
• First and Last (1911)
• The Free Press (1918)
• The French Revolution (1911)
• The French Revolution (1925)
• A General Sketch of the European War, the First Phase (1915)
• A General Sketch of the European War, The Second Phase (1916)
• The Girondin (1911)
• The Great Heresies (1938)
• The Great Inquiry; faithfully reported by Hilaire Belloc and ornamented with sharp cuts drawn on the spot (1903)
• Hills and the Sea (1906)
• The Historic Thames (1907) (transcription project)
• History of England (1912)
• History of England (1915)
• The House of Commons and Monarchy (1920)
• The Jews (1922)
• Lambkin's remains (1900)
• Land & Water; The World's War Vol. II (1914)
• The Last Days of the French monarchy (1916)
• Miniatures of French History (1926)
• The Modern Traveller (1898)
• More Peers (1911)
• Mr. Clutterbuck's Election (1908)
• The Old Road: From Canterbury to Winchester (1904)
• Paris (1900)
• Paris, Its Sites, Monuments and History (1898)
• The Path To Rome (1902)
• The Party System (1911)
• The Pyrenees (1909)
• Six British Battles (1931)
• A Shorter History of England (1934)
• The Stane Street: a monograph (1913)
• Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church (1929)
• Sussex (1906)
• The Two Maps of Europe (1915)
• Warfare in England (1913)

Biographies

• Characters Of The Reformation (1936)
• Charles the First, King of England (1933)
• Cranmer (1931)
• Danton; a study (1899)
• Emmanuel Burden, Merchant (1904)
• James II (1928)
• Joan of Arc (1930)
• The Last Rally: A Story of Charles II (1939)
• Marie Antoinette (1909)
• Milton (1935)
• Napoleon (1932)
• Oliver Cromwell (1927)
• Richelieu (1929)
• Robespierre (1901)
• William the Conqueror (1933)
• Wolsey (1930)

Essays

• An Essay on the Nature of Contemporary England (1937)
• Anti-Catholic History: How it is Written (1914) (start transcription) copy on Commons

Collections of essays

• Belloc Essays (1955)
• Distributist Perspectives: Essays On Economics of Justice And Charity (2004)
• Essays of a Catholic Layman in England (1931)
• Essays of Today and Yesterday (1926)
• On Anything (1910)
• On everything (1909) (transcription project)
• On Nothing and Kindred Subjects (1908)
• On Something (1910)
• The Silence Of The Sea and Other Essays (1940)
• This and That and the Other (1912)

Economics

• Distributist Perspectives: Essays On Economics of Justice And Charity (2004)
• Economics for Helen (1924)
• The Servile State (1912)
• The Restoration Of Property (1936)

Fiction

• The Cruise of the Nona (1925)
• The Four Men: a Farrago (1911)
• The Green Overcoat (1912) illus. G. K. Chesterton
• The Man Who Made Gold (1930)
• Pongo and the Bull (1910)
• The River of London (1912)

Poetry

• Verses and Sonnets (1896)
• The Bad Child's Book Of Beasts (1896)
• More Beasts for Worse Children (1897)
• A Moral Alphabet (1899)
• Cautionary Tales for Children (1907)
• Verses (1910)
• Sonnets and Verse (1945)
• Collected Verse (1958)
• Complete Verse (1970)
• The South Country

Anthologized:

• "Sedan", in A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919, 1917.
• 'Belloc, Hilaire', in The year's at the spring, 1920. The Early Morning p. 37; The South Country p. 38.

Individual poems:

• "Tarantella" Century Magazine, Apr 1921

1920 – 1929

• The Mercy of Allah (1922)
• The Road (1923)
• The Contrast (1923)
• On (1923)
• This and that and the other (1925)
• Mr. Petre (1925)
• The Campaign of 1812 and the Retreat from Moscow (1925)
• Mr. Belloc Still Objects (1926)
• The Catholic Church and History (1926)
• Short Talks with the Dead and others (1926)
• The emerald of Catherine the Great (1926)
• Mrs. Markham's New History of England (1926)
• The Highway and Its Vehicles (1926)
• The Haunted House (1927)
• Towns of Destiny (1927)
• Do We Agree?: A Debate Between G. K. Chesterton And Bernard Shaw, with Hilaire Belloc in the Chair (1928)
• Many Cities (1928)
• M. Wells et Dieu. Des poèmes et des essais (1928)
• But Soft - We Are Observed! (1928)
• How the Reformation Happened (1928)
• Belinda: a tale of affection in youth and age (1928)
• A Conversation with an Angel: and other essays (1928)
• The Chanty of the Nona (1928)
• The Missing Masterpiece (1929)

1930 – 1939

• The Catholic Church and Current Literature (1930)
• Pauline - Favorite Sister of Napoleon (1930)
• New Cautionary Tales (1930)
• A Conversation with a Cat: and others (1931)
• On Translation (Oxford: Clarendon, 1931)
• Hilaire Belloc (Augustan books of Modern Poetry)
• One Hundred and one Ballades (1931)
• Nine Nines or Novenas from a Chinese Litany of Odd Numbers (1931)
• The Postmaster General (1932)
• Saulieu Of The Morvan (1932)
• The Question and the Answer (1932)
• Ladies and Gentlemen: For Adults Only and Mature at That (1932)
• An Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (1932)
• Below bridges (1933)
• The Tactics and Strategy of the Great Duke of Marlborough (1933)
• How We Got The Bible (1934)
• Hilaire Belloc (1935)
• The Hedge and the Horse (1936)
• The County of Sussex (1936)
• Stories, essays, poems (1938)
• Monarchy: a study of Louis XIV (1938)
• Return to the Baltic (1938)
• The Church and Socialism (1938)
• The Case of Dr. Coulton (1938)
• On sailing the sea; a collection of seagoing writings (1939)

1940 – 1953

• On the Place of Gilbert Chesterton in English Letters (1940)
• The Catholic and the War (1940)
• The Alternative (1940)
• Elizabethan Commentary (1942)
• Places (1942)
• Selected Essays (1948)
• An Anthology of his Prose and Verse (1951)
• World Conflict (1951)
• Songs of the South Country (1951)

Posthumous

• The Verse of Hilaire Belloc (1954)
• One Thing and Another. A Miscellany from his Uncollected Essays selected by Patrick Cahill (1955)
• Letters From Hilaire Belloc (1958)
• Advice: Hilaire Belloc's advice on wine, food and other matters (1960)
• Belloc: A Biographical Anthology (1970)
• Hilaire Belloc's Prefaces (1971)

As translator

• The Romance of Tristan & Iseult, compiled by Joseph Bédier (1912)

Contributions to the Catholic Encyclopedia

• Land-Tenure in the Christian Era

Works about Belloc

• "Belloc, Hilaire," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "To Belloc" by G. K. Chesterton, dedication of The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904).
• Hilaire Belloc: the man and his work by C. Creighton Mandell, Edward Shanks and Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1916)
• The Life Of Hilaire Belloc by Robert Speaight (1953)