{"title":"Belloc Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"cruise-of-the-nona","title":"The Cruise of the Nona","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Cruise of the ‘Nona,’\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e Hilaire Belloc sets off “to sail the English seas again, and to pursue from thought to thought and from memory to memory such things as have occupied one human soul.” On one level a breezy record of an adventurous journey; underneath the surface, a wise and insightful study of modern life, particularly in its transition from the Victorian to the early modern period. Belloc’s prose glitters and crashes like ocean breakers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBelloc sees sailing as an analogy to life: full of “great visions” and “intolerable tediums,” “alive with discovery, emotion, adventure, peril, and repose.” For Belloc, the sea “presents, upon the greatest scale we mortals can bear, those not mortal powers which brought us into being. It is not only the symbol or the mirror, but especially is it the messenger of the Divine.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e Belloc leads his reader over the changing seas, treating of many questions, including:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHow did the Vikings land in what are today impassable harbors?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhen and why did the British Parliament become so corrupt?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhat is the difference between prose and rhetoric?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCan you trust learned scholars?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAre sea monsters real?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWill \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAlice in Wonderland \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eremain a popular book?\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhy are oceans so different from one another?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIs human “equality” a Catholic doctrine?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eMulling over half a century of memories and experiences, the seaman-philosopher shares a hundred and one reflections, flights of fancy, and tongue-in-cheek observations on England and Europe, Catholicism, atheism, sailing techniques, and common-sense. From his memories of the outbreak of the first World War to denunciations of rationalism, this cruise can transport the reader from his armchair to the lashing spray and biting wit of this monumental figure of English literature. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Everything Belloc touched turns to magic for me. This book, however, is the closest the great man ever came to autobiography.” —Roger Buck\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Belloc thought that the cruising of a boat is akin to the adventure of a human soul… undertaken with purpose yet subject to innumerable diversions; aided by unforeseen blessings and opportunities yet troubled by terrible anxieties. Abroad on the sea provides the full model and symbol of human life, and thus the suitable setting for the chance thoughts of one human being.” —Karl Schmude\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“The yacht seems to stop at intervals to make meditations on all sorts of subjects—capitalism, the Great War, Catholicism, and the rest—the various points of the author’s many-sided philosophy. Then it gives, as it were a twist of the tiller and returns to its jibs and booms.” —A. E. 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It is the best edition available anywhere!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eI vowed a vow there to go to Rome on Pilgrimage \u003cbr\u003eand see all Europe which the Christian Faith has saved; \u003cbr\u003eand I said, “I will walk all the way and take advantage \u003cbr\u003eof no wheeled thing...and be present at High Mass in \u003cbr\u003eSt. Peter’s on the Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis story of adventurous pilgrimage rambles through the fields of France, the mountains of Switzerland, and the plains of Italy. Belloc’s own favorite among his books, \u003cem\u003eThe Path to Rome\u003c\/em\u003e recounts a pilgrimage on foot from the author’s birthplace in France to the Eternal City. Along the way he must find shelter, food, and directions. Stopping every few pages for a swig of local wine, his thoughts wander as much as his feet, covering topics as wide ranging as:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDevices for Ending Books\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Justice in Armies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThoughts on French Folk-Lore\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Value of Bakers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Tradition of Mankind and Ordinary Living\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe also ponders the nature of the soul, declares his theory of blessings, and, when caught in loneliness or despair, cheers himself with stories such as that of the Great Barrel, the story of the Old Sailor, the story of the Devil and the Learned Man, and the story of Mr. Hard (to name a few).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a travelogue devoid of chapters, Belloc carries his reader along at a breakneck pace, stopping only to rest and argue with his imaginary reader, the “Lector.” In these altercations with the Lector, Belloc finds he must defend himself, criticize himself, and make fun of himself—and most everything else—for the sake of his sanity and the health of the world. 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Under the penalty of public ministry he burned within – forced to put his best years into the system which he yearned in secret to destroy, and to send back to the continent his own unlawful bride.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen freed of his old master, Cranmer was unleashed – his Calvinistic vision forced upon the mass of Englishmen. Revolts were crushed with hired artillery, shrines and churches looted (the monasteries already plundered), and images destroyed. Cranmer’s artful hand passed over the policy of the new rich which would confirm their power: the destruction of England’s founding and beloved Catholic faith.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaster historian Hilaire Belloc paints a portrait of the deceitful, suave, obeisant cleric: a betrayer of his benefactors, and the author of a novel national liturgy, who played a chief part in one of Europe’s great dramas and is a symbol of the transformation of the English mind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis masterpiece has been out of print for a shocking 52 years. Os Justi Press is proud to be partnering with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mysteriumpress.com\/\"\u003eMysterium Press\u003c\/a\u003e of England to bring a handsome new edition of this book to American readers.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mysterium Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41617278304354,"sku":"","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1353\/5842\/files\/cranmer.jpg?v=1733407380"},{"product_id":"wolsey","title":"Wolsey","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-35d54252-7fff-0979-5fb0-9cd27c5809bd\"\u003eHardback | 300 pages\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Christendom on the eve of its destruction, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey was to be identified with England. In one hand was held the ropes of Church and State, and when he fell what he had made was used to destroy all that he had known. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA peerless administrator who blundered abroad but remained supreme at home, Wolsey's intelligence and industry were matched by his ambition and myopia, and his inability to comprehend the inmost thoughts of man proved fatal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaster historian Hilaire Belloc paints a portrait of the low-born cleric who might have stopped the Reformation, but who in putting himself first, and distracted by the closest thing to hand, unwittingly steered England toward its ruin.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBelloc's biographies are among his greatest works, but nearly all of them have been out of print for decades and difficult to find. Os Justi Press is proud to be partnering with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mysteriumpress.com\/\"\u003eMysterium Press\u003c\/a\u003e of England to bring handsome new editions of his works to American readers.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mysterium Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41617278435426,"sku":null,"price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1353\/5842\/files\/wolsey.jpg?v=1733407457"},{"product_id":"the-four-men","title":"The Four Men","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Purportedly set in 1902, this tale was begun in 1907 but not published until 1912. The pilgrims here are Belloc and three others who meet on October 29 in an inn called the George, just inside Sussex, and decide to walk from one end of the county to the other. The idea for this walk is hatched by Belloc himself who feels that yearning of Odysseus ‘to see once more the smoke going up from his own land, and after that to die.’ He is soon joined by the three who, rather than use their given names, are each called by a nom-de-promenade: the Sailor, the Poet, and Grizzlebeard…. The attentive reader of Belloc will sense that they are themselves aspects of Belloc, who goes by the name ‘Myself’ on this journey. Like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Path to Rome\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, this farrago includes all that one could want of poetic descriptions of the land and Belloc’s own pencil sketches of it mingled with the jokes, songs, stories, and profundities for which Belloc is justly famous.” —David Deavel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Imaginative Conservative\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Few writers have felt so intensely the sense of exile, and hence the love of home, to the degree to which it is invoked by Belloc…. It is in this soil-soul nexus that the nub of Belloc’s profundity is to be discovered. It manifests itself in the tension between permanence and mutability and finds infectious expression in the perfect balance between wistfulness and whimsy. Although these qualities are to be found in all of Belloc’s work, as expressions of the very spirit of the man himself, they are to be found to an exceptional degree in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Path to Rome\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Four Men\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e…. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Four Men\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e rivals it, and perhaps surpasses it, as a vehicle for Belloc’s wit and wisdom, or as an outpouring of his irrepressible personality.” —Joseph Pearce, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCrisis Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Humorous, thought-provoking, evoking friendship, tradition, good beer and song, and recovering, ‘while they yet could be recovered, the principal joys of the soul,’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eT\u003cem\u003ehe Four Men\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is one of Belloc’s most delightful literary works.” —Sean P. 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