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  • On Something
    Hilaire Belloc
    CONTENTSA Plea for the Simpler Drama   On A Notebook On Unknown PeopleOn A Van Tromp His Character On Thruppenny Bits   On The Hotel at Palma And A Proposed Guide-Book   The Death of Wandering Peter   The Tree Of Knowledge   A Norfolk Man   The Odd People Letter of Advice and Apology to A Young Burglar  The Monkey Question: An Appeal to Common Sense   The Empire Builder   Caedw...
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    28,31 €

  • The Path to Rome
    Hilaire Belloc
    A delightful travelogue that is really about religion and history and the meaning of life. He was only about 32 when he made the pilgrimage to Rome. He broke most of the vows he took before he embarked on this exploration of his soul. Belloc is at his snarky best here. One can see the determined, almost ruthless polemicist that he was to become. His literary skills are first cl...
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    17,48 €

  • The Path to Rome
    Hilaire Belloc
    A delightful travelogue that is really about religion and history and the meaning of life. He was only about 32 when he made the pilgrimage to Rome. He broke most of the vows he took before he embarked on this exploration of his soul. Belloc is at his snarky best here. One can see the determined, almost ruthless polemicist that he was to become. His literary skills are first cl...
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    28,11 €

  • Waterloo
    Hilaire Belloc
    Waterloo (Illustrated) by Hilaire Belloc Hilaire Belloc's history of the battle at Waterloo and its ultimate meaning and the lasting effect it has had on Western Europe.CONTENTSI: The Political Object and Effect of the Waterloo Campaign    II: The Preliminaries: Napoleon’s Advance across the Sambre   III: The Decisive Day: Friday, the 16Th of June—  IV: The Allied Retreat a...
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    16,45 €

  • On Everything
    Hilaire Belloc
    CONTENTSOn SongOn an Empty HouseThe Landfall The Little Old ManThe Long March   On Saturnalia A Little Conversation in Herefordshire On the Rights of Property The Economist A Little Conversation in Carthage  The Strange CompanionThe Visitor A Reconstruction of the Past The Reasonable Press Asmodeus  The Death of the Comic Author On Certain Manners and Customs  The Statesman   T...
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    17,60 €

  • On Everything
    Hilaire Belloc
    CONTENTSOn SongOn an Empty HouseThe Landfall The Little Old ManThe Long March   On Saturnalia A Little Conversation in Herefordshire On the Rights of Property The Economist A Little Conversation in Carthage  The Strange CompanionThe Visitor A Reconstruction of the Past The Reasonable Press Asmodeus  The Death of the Comic Author On Certain Manners and Customs  The Statesman   T...
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    28,23 €

  • The Old Road
    Hilaire Belloc
    CONTENTS      ON THE ROAD AND THE FASCINATION OF ANTIQUITY    THE THEORY OF THE OLD ROAD    That such and such Causes determined the Track of the Old Road, and that it ran from Winchester to Canterbury   The Causes of the Development of Winchester and Canterbury, and of their Position as Termini of the Old Road    The Causes of the Preservation of the Old Road; its General Char...
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    28,36 €

  • First and Last
    Hilaire Belloc
    Hilaire Belloc, in full Joseph-Hilaire-Pierre-René Belloc, (born July 27, 1870, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Fr.—died July 16, 1953, Guildford, Surrey, Eng.), French-born poet, historian, and essayist who was among the most versatile English writers of the first quarter of the 20th century. He is most remembered for his light verse, particularly for children, and for the lucidity and ...
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    17,62 €

  • First and Last
    Hilaire Belloc
    Hilaire Belloc, in full Joseph-Hilaire-Pierre-René Belloc, (born July 27, 1870, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Fr.—died July 16, 1953, Guildford, Surrey, Eng.), French-born poet, historian, and essayist who was among the most versatile English writers of the first quarter of the 20th century. He is most remembered for his light verse, particularly for children, and for the lucidity and ...
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    28,24 €

  • On Nothing & Kindred Subjects
    Hilaire Belloc
    CONTENTSON THE PLEASURE OF TAKING UP ONE'S PEN   ON GETTING RESPECTED IN INNS AND HOTELS   ON IGNORANCE ON ADVERTISEMENT   ON A HOUSE ON THE ILLNESS OF MY MUSEON A DOG AND A MAN ALSO  ON TEA   ON THEM   ON RAILWAYS AND THINGS   ON CONVERSATIONS IN TRAINS   ON THE RETURN OF THE DEAD   ON THE APPROACH OF AN AWFUL DOOM  ON A RICH MAN WHO SUFFERED   ON A CHILD WHO DIED   ON A L...
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    17,72 €

  • On Nothing & Kindred Subjects
    Hilaire Belloc
    CONTENTSON THE PLEASURE OF TAKING UP ONE'S PEN   ON GETTING RESPECTED IN INNS AND HOTELS   ON IGNORANCE ON ADVERTISEMENT   ON A HOUSE ON THE ILLNESS OF MY MUSEON A DOG AND A MAN ALSO  ON TEA   ON THEM   ON RAILWAYS AND THINGS   ON CONVERSATIONS IN TRAINS   ON THE RETURN OF THE DEAD   ON THE APPROACH OF AN AWFUL DOOM  ON A RICH MAN WHO SUFFERED   ON A CHILD WHO DIED   ON A L...
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    28,36 €

  • On Anything
    Hilaire Belloc
    CONTENTSOn Building Castles In Spain   On Clay   On No Book   On Irony  On The Simplicity Of Words   On Secluded Places   On People in Books On The Effect of Time   On A Poet   On A Prophet   On Believing   On The Air of The Dordogne   On The Sites of The Revolution   A Secret Letter   The Shadows  The Canvasser   The Abstracted Man  On The Method of History   On History in Tra...
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    17,62 €

  • Europe and the Faith
    Hilaire Belloc
    Excellent analysis of how the Catholic faith transformed the Roman Empire into the Christendom of the Middle Ages. Many modern historians frame this as a "fall" of the Empire and something new rising to take its place, but Belloc makes a good case for seeing this rather as a gradual transition. He also demonstrates quite persuasively that historians ought to appreciate the prec...
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    17,63 €

  • Europe and the Faith
    Hilaire Belloc
    Excellent analysis of how the Catholic faith transformed the Roman Empire into the Christendom of the Middle Ages. Many modern historians frame this as a "fall" of the Empire and something new rising to take its place, but Belloc makes a good case for seeing this rather as a gradual transition. He also demonstrates quite persuasively that historians ought to appreciate the prec...
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    28,25 €

  • This and That and the Other
    Hilaire Belloc
    CONTENTSAn Open Letter to a Young Diplomatist  On Pedants  On Atheism  On Fame  On Rest  On Discovery  On Inns  On Rows  The Pleasant Place  On Omens  The Book   The Servants of the Rich  The Joke  The Spy   The Young People  Ethandune   The Death of Robert the Strong  The Crooked Streets  The Place Apart  The Ebro Plain  The Little River   Some Letters of Shakespeare's Tim...
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    28,28 €

  • This and That and the Other
    Hilaire Belloc
    CONTENTSAn Open Letter to a Young Diplomatist  On Pedants  On Atheism  On Fame  On Rest  On Discovery  On Inns  On Rows  The Pleasant Place  On Omens  The Book   The Servants of the Rich  The Joke  The Spy   The Young People  Ethandune   The Death of Robert the Strong  The Crooked Streets  The Place Apart  The Ebro Plain  The Little River   Some Letters of Shakespeare's Tim...
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    17,66 €

  • Hills and the Sea
    Hilaire Belloc
    Hilaire Belloc, in full Joseph-Hilaire-Pierre-René Belloc, (born July 27, 1870, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Fr.—died July 16, 1953, Guildford, Surrey, Eng.), French-born poet, historian, and essayist who was among the most versatile English writers of the first quarter of the 20th century. He is most remembered for his light verse, particularly for children, and for the lucidity and ...
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    17,58 €

  • Hills and the Sea
    Hilaire Belloc
    Hilaire Belloc, in full Joseph-Hilaire-Pierre-René Belloc, (born July 27, 1870, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Fr.—died July 16, 1953, Guildford, Surrey, Eng.), French-born poet, historian, and essayist who was among the most versatile English writers of the first quarter of the 20th century. He is most remembered for his light verse, particularly for children, and for the lucidity and ...
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    29,52 €

  • The Free Press & The Historic Thames
    Hilaire Belloc
    Hilaire Belloc, in full Joseph-Hilaire-Pierre-René Belloc, (born July 27, 1870, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Fr.—died July 16, 1953, Guildford, Surrey, Eng.), French-born poet, historian, and essayist who was among the most versatile English writers of the first quarter of the 20th century. He is most remembered for his light verse, particularly for children, and for the lucidity and ...
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    17,63 €

  • The Mercy of Allah
    Hilaire Belloc
    First published in 1922, The Mercy of Allah describes the civilization of the Arabs through the extraordinary tales a wealthy grandfather relates to his beloved grandchildren. These richly textured stories show how this prosperous Arab deceived his own countrymen to gain great fortunes, while also demonstrating the richness of Arab culture through the ages. The cultural standar...
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    18,82 €

  • The Mercy of Allah
    Hilaire Belloc
    First published in 1922, The Mercy of Allah describes the civilization of the Arabs through the extraordinary tales a wealthy grandfather relates to his beloved grandchildren. These richly textured stories show how this prosperous Arab deceived his own countrymen to gain great fortunes, while also demonstrating the richness of Arab culture through the ages. The cultural standar...
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    30,76 €

  • The Jews
    Hilaire Belloc
    QUOTES FROM THE JEWS“I say the word " Anti-Semite" is vulgar and pedantic : that I think will be universally admitted. It is also nonsensical. The antagonism to the Jews has nothing to do with any supposed "Semitic" race which probably does not exist any more than do many other modern hypothetical abstractions, and which, anyhow, does not come into the matter. The Anti-Semite i...
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  • The French Revolution
    Hilaire Belloc
    Hilaire Belloc, in full Joseph-Hilaire-Pierre-René Belloc, (born July 27, 1870, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Fr.—died July 16, 1953, Guildford, Surrey, Eng.), French-born poet, historian, and essayist who was among the most versatile English writers of the first quarter of the 20th century. He is most remembered for his light verse, particularly for children, and for the lucidity and ...
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    28,29 €

  • The Jews
    Hilaire Belloc
    QUOTES FROM THE JEWS“I say the word " Anti-Semite" is vulgar and pedantic : that I think will be universally admitted. It is also nonsensical. The antagonism to the Jews has nothing to do with any supposed "Semitic" race which probably does not exist any more than do many other modern hypothetical abstractions, and which, anyhow, does not come into the matter. The Anti-Semite i...
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    28,19 €

  • The French Revolution
    Hilaire Belloc
    Hilaire Belloc, in full Joseph-Hilaire-Pierre-René Belloc, (born July 27, 1870, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Fr.—died July 16, 1953, Guildford, Surrey, Eng.), French-born poet, historian, and essayist who was among the most versatile English writers of the first quarter of the 20th century. He is most remembered for his light verse, particularly for children, and for the lucidity and ...
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    17,66 €

  • The modern traveller
    Basil Temple Blackwood / Hilaire Belloc
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve ...
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    6,54 €

  • The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
    Hilaire Belloc
    2020 Reprint of the 1914 Edition.  Tristan and Iseult, alternatively known as Tristan and Isolde, is a chivalric romance retold in numerous variations since the 12th century. The story is a tragedy about the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Tristan (Tristram) and the Irish princess Iseult (Isolde); while the details differ from one author to another, the overall plot ...
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    9,14 €

  • The Footpath Way
    Hilaire Belloc et al.
    Hilaire Belloc, in full Joseph-Hilaire-Pierre-René Belloc, (born July 27, 1870, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Fr.—died July 16, 1953, Guildford, Surrey, Eng.), French-born poet, historian, and essayist who was among the most versatile English writers of the first quarter of the 20th century. He is most remembered for his light verse, particularly for children, and for the lucidity and ...
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    16,42 €

  • The Jews
    Hilaire Belloc
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve ...
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    12,02 €

  • The French Revolution
    Hilaire Belloc
    This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature. 3 ...
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