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A collection of short essays ranges across personal reminiscence, rural and urban observation, historical reflection, and satirical commentary. Pieces consider the social role of song, the peculiarities of houses and landscapes, travel impressions and coastal landfalls, and encounters with comic or solitary characters. Several essays debate property, journalism, manners, and public life with ironic intelligence, while others attend to rivers, hills, and small-town customs. Lightly polemical sketches, imaginative vignettes, and meditations on mortality and rest are interwoven to produce a varied sequence of brisk, witty, and occasionally elegiac reflections on everyday life and human foibles.

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Title: On Everything

Author: Hilaire Belloc

Release date: January 2, 2020 [eBook #61076]
Most recently updated: October 17, 2024

Language: English

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ON EVERYTHING


BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Paris
Hills and the Sea
Emmanuel Burden, Merchant
A Change in the Cabinet
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The Pyrenees
Marie Antoinette


ON EVERYTHING
BY
H. BELLOC

SECOND EDITION

METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON


First Published November 4th 1909
Second Edition 1910


To
Madame Antoine Pescatore