by Belloc · Cluster: Familiar Essay · Paradox · The Common Man
Abstract
A collection of Belloc’s familiar essays and sketches ranging over travel in France and Spain, the writing of history, poets and prophets, and whimsical fables. The prevailing temper is nostalgic, anti-modern and rooted in landscape, memory and the pleasures of the road.
Capitoli / Chapters
- ON BUILDING CASTLES IN SPAIN
- ON CLAY
- ON NO BOOK
- ON IRONY
- ON THE SIMPLICITY OF WORDS
- ON SECLUDED PLACES
- ON PEOPLE IN BOOKS
- ON A POET
- ON A PROPHET
- ON BELIEVING
- ON THE AIR OF THE DORDOGNE
- ON THE SITES OF THE REVOLUTION
- A SECRET LETTER
- THE SHADOWS
- THE CANVASSER
- THE ABSTRACTED MAN
- ON THE METHOD OF HISTORY
- ON HISTORY IN TRAVEL
- ON THE TRAVELLER
- ON MILTON
- HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
- THE CHRISTMAS OF 1808
- ON COMMUNICATIONS
- ASTARTE
- THE HUNGRY STUDENT
- THE HONEST MAN AND THE DEVIL
- COMPIÈGNE
- THE CANDOUR OF MATURITY
- THE FOG
- THE SPANIARD
- THE FORTRESS
- OUR INHERITANCE
- THE NEW ROAD
- ON TWO TOWNS
- THE JUDGMENT OF ROBESPIERRE
Connections
Forms & Genres: Essay, Sketch, Nonfiction Themes & Concepts: Critique of Progress, Nostalgia, Nature vs Civilization, Imagination, Memory and Time, Common Man Motifs: Road, Journey, Wine and Drink, Fog and Smoke Historical References: French Revolution Settings: France, Spain, Rural England, Europe Characters: Robespierre Archetypes: Prophet Topoi: Open Road Homecoming, Beatus Ille (Happy the Man Rural Retreat)