Hilaire Belloc bibliography

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This is a chronological bibliography of books (with a few pamphlets) by the author Hilaire Belloc. 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 (1896) poems, Basil Temple Blackwood (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
• A Moral Alphabet (1899) poems, B. T. B. illustrator
• Paris (1900)
• Lambkin's remains (1900)
• Robespierre (1901)
• The Path to Rome (1902) non-fiction (a travel book enhanced by numerous digressions)^[1]
• The Great Inquiry; faithfully reported by Hilaire Belloc and ornamented with sharp cuts drawn on the spot by G. K. Chesterton (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 (1904) criticism
• The Old Road: from Canterbury to Winchester (1904)
• Hills and the Sea (1906)
• Sussex (1906) illustrations by Wilfrid Ball
• Esto Perpetua: Algerian Studies and Impressions (1906) travel
• Cautionary Tales for Children (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 (1909) non-fiction
• The Pyrenees (1909)

1910 – 1919[]

• Pongo and the Bull (1910) novel
• Catholicism and Socialism: Second Series (1910) essays, with Joseph Rickaby and others
• On Anything (1910) essays
• On Something (1910) essays
• Verses (1910)
• The Party System (1911) non-fiction (with Cecil Chesterton)
• 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 (1911) Turcoing (1912), Crécy (1912), Waterloo (1912), Malplaquet, Poitiers (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, 11 volumes, and later versions in the 1920s
• The Romance of Tristan and Iseult (1913) translation of Joseph Bédier's 1900 work
• 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 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)
• A Picked Company, being a selection from the writings of H. Belloc (1915), ed. E. V. Lucas
• 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)
• 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
• 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 , , , , , Georges Hugnet, , Max Jacob, Jean de Menasce, Eugenio d'Ors,
• 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 #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) , editor Hilaire Belloc (and other books of the )
• 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) Taylorian Lecture, 1931
• Hilaire Belloc (Augustan books of Modern Poetry) 1931
• One Hundred and one Ballades (1931) with E. C. Bentley G. K. Chesterton C.K. Scott-Moncrieff, , , Maurice Baring, Cecil Chesterton, Geoffrey Howard, ,
• Nine Nines or Novenas from a Chinese Litany of Odd Numbers (1931)
• Napoleon (1932) non-fiction
• The Postmaster General (1932) novel
• Saulieu 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
• 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, 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
• Monarchy: a study of Louis XIV (1938)
• Return to the Baltic (1938)
• The Great Heresies (1938) ISBN 978-0895554758
• 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 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 by Joseph Bedier (1945) translated by Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld
• Selected Essays (1948) edited by J. B. Morton
• 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, edited W. N. Roughead
• One Thing and Another. A Miscellany from his Uncollected Essays selected by Patrick Cahill (1955)
• Collected Verse (1958)
• Letters From Hilaire Belloc (1958) selected by Robert Speaight
• 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 and
• Hilaire Belloc's Prefaces (1971) editor
• Distributist Perspectives: Essays On Economics of Justice And Charity (2004) with , George Maxwell, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur J. Penty, H. J. Massingham, Eric Gill, and Harold Robbins
• Cautionary Tales for Children, illustrated by Edward Gorey (2002) Harcourt, Inc.
• The Way Out (2006)

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