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Hilaire Belloc was a critically acclaimed novelist during the 20th century, and The Four Men is a travel novel featuring characters who embody different aspects of the author's own personality.

"It has been proved in the life of every man that though his loves are human, and therefore changeable, yet in proportion as he attaches them to things unchangeable, so they mature and broaden."

"Purportedly set in 1902, this tale was begun in 1907 but not published... Read Full Overview

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A "Farrago" is a "confused mixture," an apt subtitle for this 1911 semi-fictional travelogue and love song to Hilaire Belloc's home County of Sussex. It is full to bursting with humor, songs (often including scores), speeches, drawings, fables, digressions, poetry, and legends,... Read Full Overview

Four men--Myself, Grizzlebeard, The Sailor, and The Poet--wander through the Sussex of 1902. Their comical adventures and perceptions celebrate the vanishing landscape of unspoilt rural England and a lifestyle soon to become obsolete. The four characters are all personifications... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This masterful volume from Anglo-French writer, Hilaire Belloc, details the 90-mile pilgrimage of four men, each character representing a different aspect of the author's personality.

The Four Men: A Farrago follows the long pilgrimage of the characters... Read Full Overview