The Eye-Witness

by H. Belloc

Overview

Being a Series of Descriptions and Sketches in Which It Is Attempted to Reproduce Certain Incidents and Periods in History, as From the Testimony of a Person Present at Each.

In "The Eye-Witness" Mr. Belloc has attempted, upon the record of one vivid experience, to reconstruct certain passages of the past-to present successive pictures stretching across the whole period of Christian history. Mr. Belloc's work always commands attention, and his new volume, not only for the fascination of its theme, but also for the purity of its style, will do much to increase his popularity.
-The Academy, Vol. 75 [1908]

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663531957
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	07/12/2020
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc ( 27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953) was a British-French writer and historian and one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong impact on his works. He was President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford from 1906 to 1910. He was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds. Belloc became a naturalised British subject in 1902 while retaining his French citizenship.

His writings encompassed religious poetry and comic verse for children. His widely sold Cautionary Tales for Children included "Jim, who ran away from his nurse, and was eaten by a lion" and "Matilda, who told lies and was burned to death". He also collaborated with G. K. Chesterton on a number of works.