Hilaire Belloc's books
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This is a chronological bibliography of books (with a few pamphlets) by the author Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, satirist, man of letters and political activist...

. His books of verse went through many different editions, and are not comprehensively covered.

To 1909

  • Verses and Sonnets (1896) poems, Ward and Downey.
  • The Bad Child's Book Of Beasts
    The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
    The Bad Child's Book of Beasts is an 1896 children's book written by Hilaire Belloc. Humorously illustrated by Basil Temple Blackwood, the superficially naive verses give tongue-in-cheek advice to children. In the book, the animals tend to be sage-like, and the humans dull and self-satisfied...

     (1896) poems, Basil Temple Blackwood
    Basil Temple Blackwood
    Ian Basil Gawaine Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood styled Lord Basil Temple Blackwood, was a British lawyer, civil servant and book illustrator.-Early life:...

     (B.T.B.) illustrator
  • More Beasts for Worse Children (1897) poems, B. T. B. illustrator
  • The Modern Traveller (1898) poems, B. T. B. illustrator
  • Danton; a study (1899)
  • Paris, Its Sites, Monuments and History (1898) with Maria Horner Lansdale
  • A Moral Alphabet (1899) poems, B. T. B. illustrator
  • Paris (1900)
  • Lambkin's remains (1900)
  • Robespierre (1901)
  • The Path To Rome (1902) non-fiction
  • The great inquiry; faithfully reported by Hilaire Belloc and ornamented with sharp cuts drawn on the spot by G. K. Chesterton
    G. K. Chesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction....

     (1903)
  • Caliban's Guide to Letters (1903) also The aftermath or, Gleanings from a busy life
  • Emmanuel Burden, Merchant (1904) novel
  • Avril. Essays on the French Renaissance
    French Renaissance
    French Renaissance is a recent term used to describe a cultural and artistic movement in France from the late 15th century to the early 17th century. It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that many cultural historians believe originated in northern Italy in the fourteenth century...

     (1904) criticism
  • The Old Road: From Canterbury
    Canterbury
    Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a district of Kent in South East England. It lies on the River Stour....

     to Winchester
    Winchester
    Winchester is a historic cathedral city and former capital city of England. It is the county town of Hampshire, in South East England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government district, and is located at the western end of the South Downs, along the course of...

     (1904)
  • Hills and the Sea (1906)
  • Sussex
    Sussex
    Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...

     (1906) illustrations by Wilfrid Ball
  • Esto Perpetua: Algeria
    Algeria
    Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

    n Studies and Impressions (1906) travel
  • Cautionary Tales for Children
    Cautionary Tales for Children
    Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years is a 1907 children's book written by Hilaire Belloc...

     (1907) poems, B. T. B. illustrator
  • The Historic Thames (1907)
  • Mr. Clutterbuck's Election (1908) novel
  • On Nothing and Kindred Subjects (1908) essays
  • On Everything (1909) essays
  • The Eye-Witness (1908)
  • A Change in the Cabinet (1909) novel
  • Marie Antoinette
    Marie Antoinette
    Marie Antoinette ; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was an Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of France and of Navarre. She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I....

     (1909) non-fiction
  • The Pyrenees
    Pyrenees
    The Pyrenees is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between France and Spain...

     (1909)

1910 – 1919

  • Pongo and the Bull (1910) novel
  • Catholicism and Socialism: Second Series (1910) essays, with Joseph Rickaby
    Joseph Rickaby
    -Life:He was born in 1845 in Everingham, York. He received his education at Stonyhurst College, and was ordained in 1877, one of the so-called Stonyhurst Philosophers, a significant group for neo-scholasticism in England...

     and others
  • On Anything (1910) essays
  • On Something (1910) essays
  • Verses (1910)
  • The Party System (1911) non-fiction (with Cecil Chesterton
    Cecil Chesterton
    Cecil Edward Chesterton was an English journalist and political commentator, known particularly for his role as editor of The New Witness from 1912 to 1916, and in relation to its coverage of the Marconi scandal....

    )
  • More Peers (1911) poems, B. T. B. illustrator
  • The Four Men: a Farrago (1911) novel
  • The French Revolution (1911) non-fiction
  • The Girondin (1911) novel
  • First and last (1911) essays
  • British Battles: Blenheim
    Battle of Blenheim
    The Battle of Blenheim , fought on 13 August 1704, was a major battle of the War of the Spanish Succession. Louis XIV of France sought to knock Emperor Leopold out of the war by seizing Vienna, the Habsburg capital, and gain a favourable peace settlement...

     (1911) Turcoing (1912), Crécy
    Battle of Crécy
    The Battle of Crécy took place on 26 August 1346 near Crécy in northern France, and was one of the most important battles of the Hundred Years' War...

     (1912), Waterloo
    Battle of Waterloo
    The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands...

     (1912), Malplaquet
    Battle of Malplaquet
    The Battle of Malplaquet, fought on 11 September 1709, was one of the main battles of the War of the Spanish Succession, which opposed the Bourbons of France and Spain against an alliance whose major members were the Habsburg Monarchy, Great Britain, the United Provinces and the Kingdom of...

    , Poitiers
    Battle of Poitiers (1356)
    The Battle of Poitiers was fought between the Kingdoms of England and France on 19 September 1356 near Poitiers, resulting in the second of the three great English victories of the Hundred Years' War: Crécy, Poitiers, and Agincourt....

     (1913); as Six British Battles 1931, 1951
  • The Servile State (1912) politics/economics
  • The Green Overcoat (1912) novel
  • The River of London (1912)
  • This and That and the Other (1912) essays
  • The History of England (1912) with John Lingard
    John Lingard
    Dr. John Lingard was an English Catholic priest, born in St Thomas Street in Central Winchester to recusant parents and the author of The History Of England, From the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of Henry VIII, an 8-volume work published in 1819...

    , 11 volumes, and later versions in the 1920s
  • The Stane Street: a monograph (1913)
  • Warfare in England (1913)
  • The Book of the Bayeux tapestry (1914)
  • Land & Water; The World's War Vol. II (Parts 14 to 26) (1914) magazine, also in hard covers
  • The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
    Tristan and Iseult
    The legend of Tristan and Iseult is an influential romance and tragedy, retold in numerous sources with as many variations. The tragic story is of the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Iseult...

     (1915) translation of Joseph Bédier's 1900 work
  • The History of England (1915) non-fiction
  • The Two Maps of Europe (1915) non-fiction
  • A Change in the Cabinet (1915)
  • A General Sketch of the European War, the First Phase (1915)
  • At the Sign of the Lion (1916) essays (US)
  • The last days of the French monarchy (1916)
  • A General Sketch of the European War, The Second Phase (1916)
  • The Free Press (1918)

1920 – 1929

  • Europe And The Faith (1920) non-fiction
  • The House of Commons and Monarchy (1920)
  • The Jews (1922) later editions 1928, 1937
  • The Mercy of Allah (1922)
  • The Road (1923)
  • The Contrast (1923)
  • On (1923) essays
  • Economics for Helen (1924) distributism
  • The Cruise of the Nona (1925)
  • This and that and the other (1925) essays
  • Mr. Petre (1925) novel
  • The French Revolution (1925)
  • The Campaign of 1812 and the Retreat from Moscow (1925)
  • A Companion to Mr. Wells's "Outline of History" (1926)
  • Mr. Belloc Still Objects (1926)
  • The Catholic Church and History (1926)
  • Short Talks with the Dead and others (1926) Cayme Press
  • The emerald of Catherine the Great (1926)
  • Essays of Today and Yesterday (1926)
  • Miniatures of French History (1926)
  • Mrs. Markham's New History of England (1926)
  • The Highway and Its Vehicles (1926) edited by Geoffrey Holme
  • Oliver Cromwell (1927) non-fiction
  • The Haunted House (1927) novel
  • 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) travel
  • M. Wells et Dieu. Des poèmes et des essais (1928) with Maurice Beerblock, A. Beucler, Pierre Colle, Elie Gothchaux, Robert Honnert, Georges Hugnet
    Georges Hugnet
    Georges Hugnet , was a French poet, writer, artist, art historian, graphic artist, and film director. He was a figure in the Dada movement and Surrealism.-References:...

    , Mercédès de Gournay, Max Jacob
    Max Jacob
    Max Jacob was a French poet, painter, writer, and critic.-Life and career:After spending his childhood in Quimper, Brittany, France, he enrolled in the Paris Colonial School, which he left in 1897 for an artistic career...

    , Jean de Menasce, Eugenio d'Ors, Paul Sabon

  • James II (1928) non-fiction
  • But Soft - We Are Observed! (1928) novel (Shadowed! US)
  • How the Reformation Happened (1928)
  • Belinda: a tale of affection in youth and age (1928) novel
  • A Conversation with an Angel: and other essays (1928)
  • The Chanty of the Nona (1928) Faber and Gwyer, Ariel Poems
    Ariel poems (Faber)
    The Ariel poems were a series of pamphlets published by Faber and Gwyer which contained illustrated poems....

     #9
  • The Missing Masterpiece (1929) novel
  • Richelieu (1929) non-fiction
  • Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church (1929)

1930 – 1939

  • The Man Who Made Gold (1930) novel
  • Wolsey (1930) non-fiction
  • The Catholic Church and Current Literature (1930) George N. Shuster, editor Hilaire Belloc (and other books of the Calvert Series)
  • Joan of Arc (1930)
  • Pauline - Favorite Sister of Napoleon (1930)
  • New Cautionary Tales (1930) poems
  • Essays of a Catholic Layman in England (1931)
  • A Conversation with a Cat: and others (1931)
    • Cranmer (1931) non-fiction
  • On Translation (Oxford: Clarendon, 1931) Tayloran Lectures, 1931
  • Hilaire Belloc (Augustan books of Modern Poetry) 1931
  • One Hundred and one Ballades (1931) with E. C. Bentley G. K. Chesterton
    G. K. Chesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction....

     C.K. Scott-Moncrieff, Winifred Agar, Sidney Allnutt, Maurice Baring
    Maurice Baring
    Maurice Baring was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent...

    , Cecil Chesterton
    Cecil Chesterton
    Cecil Edward Chesterton was an English journalist and political commentator, known particularly for his role as editor of The New Witness from 1912 to 1916, and in relation to its coverage of the Marconi scandal....

    , Geoffrey Howard
    Geoffrey Howard (Liberal politician)
    The Honourable Geoffrey William Algernon Howard JP was a British Liberal politician. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household under H. H...

    , Diggory King, H. S. Mackintosh
  • Nine Nines or Novenas from a Chinese Litany of Odd Numbers (1931)
  • Napoleon (1932) non-fiction
  • The Postmaster General (1932) novel
  • Saulieu
    Saulieu
    Saulieu is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Burgundy region in eastern France.Capital of the Morvan, and found in the Morvan Regional Park, Saulieu is located to the southeast of Paris on the RN6 road.-History:...

     Of The Morvan (1932)
  • The Question and the Answer (1932)
  • Ladies and Gentlemen: For Adults Only and Mature at That (1932) poems
  • An Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (1932) Curwen Press
    Curwen Press
    The Curwen Press was founded by the Reverend John Curwen in 1863 to publish sheet music for the "tonic sol-fa" system. The Press was based in Plaistow, Newham, east London, England, where Curwen was a pastor from 1844...

  • Charles the First, King of England (1933)
  • William the Conqueror (1933)
  • Below bridges (1933)
  • The Tactics and Strategy of the Great Duke of Marlborough (1933)
  • How We Got The Bible (1934) pamphlet
  • A Shorter History of England (1934)
  • Milton (1935) non-fiction
  • Hilaire Belloc (1935) edited by E. V. Knox
    E. V. Knox
    Edmund George Valpy Knox , was a poet and satirist who wrote under the pseudonym Evoe. He was editor of Punch 1932-1949, having been a regular contributor in verse and prose for many years....

    , Methuen Library of Humour
  • Characters Of The Reformation (1936) non-fiction
  • The Restoration Of Property (1936) non-fiction
  • The hedge and the horse (1936)
  • The Battleground: Syria and Palestine, The Seedplot of Religion (1936)
  • The County of Sussex (1936)
  • The Crisis Of Our Civilisation (1937) non-fiction
  • The Crusades : The World's Debate (1937)
  • An Essay on the Nature of Contemporary England (1937) (What England Really Is US)
  • Stories, essays, poems (1938) edited by Ernest Rhys
    Ernest Rhys
    Ernest Percival Rhys was an English writer, best known for his role as founding editor of the Everyman's Library series of affordable classics. He wrote essays, stories, poetry, novels and plays...

  • Monarchy: a study of Louis XIV (1938)
  • Return to the Baltic (1938)
  • The Great Heresies (1938)
  • The Church and Socialism (1938)
  • The Case of Dr. Coulton (1938)
  • On sailing the sea; a collection of seagoing writings (1939) selected by W. N. Roughead
  • The Last Rally: A Story of Charles II (1939) non-fiction

1940 – 1953

  • The Silence Of The Sea and Other Essays (1940)
  • On the Place of Gilbert Chesterton
    G. K. Chesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction....

     in English Letters (1940)
  • The Catholic and the War (1940)
  • The Alternative (1940) distributist pamphlet
  • Elizabethan Commentary (1942) (Elizabeth, Creature of Circumstance US)
  • Places (1942)
  • Sonnets and Verse (1945)
  • The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
    Tristan and Iseult
    The legend of Tristan and Iseult is an influential romance and tragedy, retold in numerous sources with as many variations. The tragic story is of the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Iseult...

     by Joseph Bedier
    Joseph Bédier
    Joseph Bédier was a French writer and scholar and historian of medieval France.-Biography:Bédier was born in Paris, France to Adolphe Bédier, a lawyer of Breton origin, and spent his childhood in Réunion. He was a professor of medieval French literature at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland ...

     (1945) translated by Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld
    Paul Rosenfeld
    Paul Leopold Rosenfeld was an American journalist, best known as a music critic.He was born in New York City into a German-Jewish family...

  • Selected Essays (1948) edited by J. B. Morton
    J. B. Morton
    John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael Morton, better known by his preferred abbreviation J. B. Morton was an English humorous writer noted for authoring a column called By the Way under the pen name Beachcomber in the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975.G. K...

  • An Anthology of his Prose and Verse (1951) selected by W. N. Roughead
  • World Conflict (1951) booklet
  • Songs of the South Country (1951) selected poems

Posthumous

  • Belloc Essays (1955) edited by Anthony Forster
  • The Verse of Hilaire Belloc (1954) Nonesuch Press
    Nonesuch Press
    Nonesuch Press was a private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell, his wife Vera Mendel, and David Garnett.-History:Nonesuch Press's first book, a volume of John Donne's Love Poems was issued in May 1923. In total, the press produced more than 140 books. The press was at its peak in...

    , edited W. N. Roughead
  • One Thing and Another. A Miscellany from his Uncollected Essays selected by Patrick Cahill
    Patrick Cahill
    Patrick J. Cahill was an Irish Sinn Féin politician and newspaper editor. He was leader of the Kerry 1st Brigade of the Irish Republican Army. His units operated in and around Tralee during the Irish War of Independence...

     (1955)
  • Collected Verse (1958)
  • Letters From Hilaire Belloc (1958) selected by Robert Speaight
    Robert Speaight
    Robert Speaight was a British actor and writer, and the brother of George Speaight the puppeteer.He was an early performer in radio plays. He came to prominence as Becket in the first production of T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral. He went on to Shakespearean roles, and to direct.He also...

  • Advice: Hilaire Belloc's advice on wine, food and other matters (1960)
  • Complete Verse (1970) Duckworth
  • Belloc: A Biographical Anthology (1970) edited by Herbert Van Thal
    Herbert Van Thal
    Herbert Maurice van Thal , better known as Bertie, was a bookseller, publisher, agent, biographer, and anthologist. His grandfather was a distiller , and was a director of the theatre proprieters, Howard and Wyndham...

      and Jane Soames Nickerson
  • Hilaire Belloc's Prefaces (1971) editor J. A. De Chantigny
  • Distributist Perspectives: Essays On Economics of Justice And Charity (2004) with Herbert W. Shove, George Maxwell
    George Maxwell
    George Maxwell was a professional collector of plants and insects in Southwest Australia. The botanical specimens he obtained were used to make formal descriptions of the region's plant species....

    , G. K. Chesterton
    G. K. Chesterton
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, plays, journalism, public lectures and debates, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction....

    , Arthur J. Penty, H. J. Massingham
    H. J. Massingham
    Harold John Massingham was a prolific British writer on matters to do with the countryside and agriculture. He was also a published poet.-Life:...

    , Eric Gill
    Eric Gill
    Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement...

    , and Harold Robbins
    Harold Robbins
    Harold Robbins was one of the best-selling American authors of all time. During his career, he wrote over 25 best-sellers, selling over 750 million copies in 32 languages....

  • Cautionary Tales for Children, illustrated by Edward Gorey
    Edward Gorey
    Edward St. John Gorey was an American writer and artist noted for his macabre illustrated books.-Early life:...

     (2002) Harcourt, Inc.
  • The Way Out (2006) Catholic Authors Press
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