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Cautionary Tales by Hilaire Belloc
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
First published in 1907 and in print ever since, Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children is a deliciously witty parody of the terribly serious moral tales for children, which were popular in Victorian times. Terrifying and funny at the same time, and with a true sense of the absurd, Belloc brings ...Show more
Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc
Category: Children's Classics
Cautionary Tales for Children By Hilaire Belloc First published in the year 1907, Hilaire Belloc's present book 'Cautionary Tales for Children' consists of fully illustrated short stories written primarily for young children. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic ...Show more
Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc
Category: Children's Classics
For readers of any age, a witty and strikingly irreverent collection of moral guidance Most notable among prolific English satirist Hilaire Belloc's writings are the sharp and clever admonishments he composed for children. Collected here and illustrated to wonderful haunting effect by Edward Gorey, thes ...Show more
Cautionary Verses by Hilaire Belloc
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics
This series offers a superb collection of th e world''s greatest children''s books and their classic illust rations in handsome, full cloth hardcover editions. '
Cautionary Verses by Hilaire Belloc
Category: Children's Classics
The Chief Defect of Henry King Was chewing little bits of String. At last he swallowed some which tied Itself in ugly Knots inside ...A much-loved classic for children and adults alike since its first publication in 1939, this collection of poems is a truly unforgettable book of moral instruction. Take ...Show more
Jim: A Cautionary Tale (PB) by Hilaire Belloc
Category: Picture Books
Award-winning illustrator Mini Grey turns her inimitable hand to Hilaire Belloc's classic cautionary tale of Jim: who ran away from his Nurse and was eaten by a Lion! First published in 1907, Belloc's wickedly funny poem describing the sad end of Jim is fabulously illustrated in a magical picture book e ...Show more
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bedier; Hilaire Belloc (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
The doomed romance between a Cornish knight and an Irish princess is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, echoing through the Arthurian tale of Lancelot and Guinevere and inspiring the Wagner opera. Hilaire Belloc fluidly translated B dier's 1913 vivid retelling into English.
Weekend Wodehouse by P. G. Wodehouse; Hilaire Belloc (Introduction by)
Category: Classics
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HILAIRE BELLOC'P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply, or with quite as much wit and affection'Julian FellowesWeekend Wodehouse - required reading at country house parties in the late Th ...Show more
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