Cautionary Tales

Hilaire Belloc (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2024
Macmillan Collector's Library (Verlag)
978-1-0350-1740-9 (ISBN)

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Written for children, enjoyed by grown-ups, Belloc’s hilarious and irreverent cautionary tales and poems have entertained for generations.

First published in 1907 and in print ever since, Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales for Children is a deliciously witty parody of the terribly serious moral tales for children, which were popular in Victorian times.

Terrifying and funny at the same time, and with a true sense of the absurd, Belloc brings us the renowned 'Jim, Who ran away from his nurse, and was eaten by a Lion' and unfortunate 'Rebecca, who slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably'.

As well as these stories and many more, this edition includes a selection of mischievous poems from The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts and More Beasts for Worse Children. This volume includes the original illustrations by Basil Temple Blackwood, known as B.T.B.

Hilaire Belloc was born in France in 1870. As a child, he moved with his mother and siblings to England. As a French citizen, he did his military service in France before going to Oxford University, where he was president of the Union debating society. He took British citizenship in 1902 and was a member of parliament for several years. A prolific and versatile writer of over 150 books, he is best remembered for his comic and light verse. But he also wrote extensively about politics, history, nature and contemporary society. Famously adversarial, he is remembered for his long-running feud with H. G. Wells. He died in in Surrey, England, in 1953.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.02.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	99 x 157 mm
Gewicht	171 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Humor / Satire
	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Kinder- / Jugendbuch
ISBN-10	1-0350-1740-7 / 1035017407
ISBN-13	978-1-0350-1740-9 / 9781035017409
Zustand	Neuware