In The Great Heresies, Hilaire Belloc takes the reader on a fast and furious tour of European history seen through the lens of its chief religious conflicts - Arianism, 'Mohammedanism' (Islam), Albigensianism, the Reformation, and what he terms 'The Modern Phase.'

Gilmore Girls meets Oppenheimer in this dual-timeline family saga, set in a Manhattan Project town, about a granddaughter who uncovers her grandmother’s nuclear-age secrets and her own toxic inheritance.What is the half-life of O’Toole family secrets?In 2013, Saige is stuck living with her Granny Rosamond in her beige wasteland of a hometown. Desperate for a diagnosis and cure for her mysterious ailments, she uncovers more...

The Prologue of Walafrid He was born in eastern Frankland, in the district that is called Moingewi, and it was in the monastery of Fulda, in the school of Saint Boniface the Martyr, that his boyhood received its first training. Thence he was sent by Baugolf, the abbot of the monastery, to the palace of Charles, rather on account of his remarkable talents and intelligence, which even then gave bright promise of his wisdom that was to be so famous in later days, than because of any advantage...

JOAN OF ARC: The Maid of France by Hilaire BellocIndeed, for that was I born.France, 1429. A kingdom stands on the edge of the abyss. Torn asunder by the bloody feud between the Armagnacs and the Burgundians, and crushed under the iron heel of the English occupation, the «Land of the Lilies» is a realm without a leader. The rightful heir, the Dauphin Charles, lingers in doubt and despair, his crown a distant dream, his legitimacy questioned by his own mother. The l...

Hilaire Belloc - Premium Collection: Historical Works, Writings on Economy, Essays & Fiction presents a comprehensive anthology of Belloc's literary oeuvre, showcasing his profound engagement with historical narratives, economic theories, and fiction. The collection reflects Belloc's signature style, characterized by a blend of eloquence and rigorous analysis, underscored by a deep appreciation for the complexity of human experience. Readers will discover Belloc's incisive observations on ...

Chronicling the tumultuous life of the original bad boy of tennis, this engaging memoir describes one man's public battle with clinical depression. Cliff Richey was best known for the 1970 season in which he won the Grand Prix, the Davis Cup, and was first in the American tennis ranking. He was also well known for his tantrums and boorish behavior that served to mask an internal, dark struggle. Describing torturous days in which he would place black trash bags on the windows and lay in bed...

Hilaire Belloc's The French Revolution is a compact yet forceful interpretation of the political, social, and spiritual upheaval that remade France and Europe after 1789. Rather than offering a neutral chronicle, Belloc presents the Revolution as a decisive struggle over sovereignty, citizenship, and the moral basis of public life. His prose is lucid, argumentative, and dramatic, reflecting the Edwardian tradition of popular historical writing while engaging the older debates of Burke, Car...

Marie Antoinette, an emblematic figure of the French Revolution, continues to haunt our collective imagination. Yet beyond being a fashion icon or a fallen queen, who truly was this «famous Viennese» who became Queen of France at the age of fourteen?In this masterful biography, Hilaire Belloc wields his lyrical and incisive pen to explore a destiny that, although tragic, is unparalleled in human richness. With a distinctly Catholic sensitivity, Belloc goes beyond mere fact-telling:...

In the infancy of Cuba's tourism, Wanda St.Hilaire takes a trip to the tiny island. In spite of her love of all things Latin, she puts herself on a travel ban to Castro's Cuba, one that lasts twenty years.When she is forced to cancel a trip to Oaxaca, Mexico at the last minute, she finds herself in Cuba twice, on back-to-back trips. Walking into the backstreets of Havana, eyes wide open, she finds herself pulled into a dalliance with a charismatic cubano.Underneath the faça...

This classic volume contains a collection of essays written by Hilaire Belloc. Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (1870–1953) was an Anglo-French historian and author, considered to be one of the most productive English writers of the early twentieth century. The essays cover a range of topics, and were originally published in other works, including “The Path to Rome” (1903) and “The Eye-Witness” (1908). Contents include: “The Fog”, “Ronsard”, “The Apprentice”, “Valmy”, “Barbary”, “The Seco...

Cautionary tales are traditional folklore stories used to teach children of dangers. Hilaire Belloc's 'Cautionary Tales' have been warning children from danger for over a hundred years. This book also includes three more of Belloc's works, 'A Moral Alphabet,' 'A Bad Child's Book of Beasts' and 'More Beasts for Worse Children.'

The object of these few pages is not to recount once more the history of the Revolution: that can be followed in any one of a hundred text-books. Their object is rather to lay, if that be possible, an explanation of it before the English reader; so that he may understand both what it was and how it proceeded, and also why certain problems hitherto unfamiliar to Englishmen have risen out of it. First, therefore, it is necessary to set down, clearly without modern accretion, that political t...