by Belloc · Cluster: Familiar Essay · Paradox · The Common Man
Abstract
A gathering of Belloc’s familiar essays ranging over the sea and sailing, cheese, history, old things, great winds, and the end of the world. The tone moves between genial digression and elegiac reflection on time, memory, loss, and the passing away of a settled European life.
Capitoli / Chapters
- On Weighing Anchor
- The Reveillon
- On Cheeses
- The Captain of Industry
- The Inventor
- The Views of England
- The Lunatic
- The Inheritance of Humour
- The Old Gentleman’s Opinions
- The Absence of the Past
- St. Patrick
- The Lost Things
- On the Reading of History
- The Victory
- Reality
- José Maria de Heredia
- Normandy and the Normans
Readability (prose)-2.2 Flesch ease29.9 FK grade33.4 Fog18% complex65.8 words/sent
Connections
Forms & Genres: Essay, Sketch, Nonfiction Themes & Concepts: Memory and Time, Nostalgia, Transience, Mortality, Tradition, Nature Motifs: Sea, Wind, Journey, Wine and Drink, Food and Feasting, Death, Sea and Voyage Settings: Rural England, Sea (2), France, Europe Topoi: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi, Ubi Sunt, Tempus Fugit