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First and Last

Author
Hilaire Belloc
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
6 hours 22 minutes
ISBN
9781802567281
Published
6 July 2025
Imprint
Adelphi Press
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Belloc’s essays talk as if the West were still a quarrel worth having: property, the state, the Church, literature as a culture’s test, decay he thinks he can date. Catholic polemic with a walker and a historian inside it — clarity, joke, a blow. A sequence of positions across years, one temperament: tradition as a working tool, modernity as a thinning of the real, man and the state as a running argument.

Author

Hilaire Belloc was an Anglo-French writer and historian. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He was known as a writer, orator, poet, sailor, satirist, man 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.

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