Hilaire Belloc has written at least 27 books. Their most popular book is The Romance of Tristan and Iseult with 14 saves with an average rating of 3.5⭐.
They are best known for writing in the genres Classics, Poetry, and Young Adult.
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was born in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, France, the son of a French father, who was an attorney, and an English mother, who was an author. In 1872, his father died in 1872, leaving the family destitute, and his mother moved with Belloc to Slindon, West Sussex, where he spent most of his childhood. He was educated at John Henry Newman's Oratory School in Edgbaston, Birmingham, and then volunteered to serve in the French Army. He was posted in an artillery regiment near Toul in 1891. After his release from the military, he studied history at Oxford University, graduating in 1895. In 1896, he married Elodie Hogan, an American, and published his first book, a book of poetry called Verses and Sonnets. In 1906 he and his family moved to Shipley, West Sussex, where he lived until just before he died. He went into politics, and was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament for Salford South from 1906-1910. In 1914, the year his wife Elodie died of influenza, he took a position as edited of the war journal Land and Water, where he stayed until 1920. In 1918, his son Louis was killed while serving in the Royal Flying Corps in France. Belloc suffered a stroke in 1941, from which he never recovered.
1170 • 14 Readers • 205 pages • 3.5
Good Poems
2005 • 5 Readers • 344 pages • 4
1907 • 4 Readers • 72 pages • 3
3 Readers • 3
1992 • 2 Readers
2018 • 2 Readers • 146 pages
1902 • 2 Readers • 178 pages
1912 • 2 Readers
2002 • 2 Readers
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1940 • 1 Reader • 432 pages
1920 • 1 Reader
2003 • 1 Reader • 144 pages
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1897 • 1 Reader
1920 • 1 Reader
1922 • 1 Reader • 182 pages
2000 • 1 Reader
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1940 • 253 pages
1924 • 320 pages
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1987 • 24 pages