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"The Four Men" describes four characters, Myself, Grizzlebeard, the Poet and the Sailor, each aspects of Belloc's personality, as they journey in a half-real, half-fictional allegory of life. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Subtitled " a Farrago ", meaning a 'confused mixture', [ 3 ] the book contains a range of anecdotes, songs, reflections and miscellany.
One of his best-known works relating to Sussex is The Four Men: A Farrago (1911), in which the four characters, each aspects of Belloc's personality, [59] [60] travel on a pilgrimage across the county from Robertsbridge to Harting. [60]
The Four Men: A Farrago (London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1911) novel; ... Hilaire Belloc's Prefaces, Written for Fellow Authors (Chicago: Loyala University Press, ...
Pages in category "Novels by Hilaire Belloc" ... The Four Men: A Farrago ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
Published in 1911, The Four Men: a Farrago is Hilaire Belloc's novel in which the four characters walk 90 miles across Sussex visiting several pubs and celebrating Sussex beer. Belloc's characters largely live on a diet of cheese, bacon and Sussex beer and Belloc refers to their 'baptism by beer'. [25]
In the 1980s, Bob Copper published the book Across Sussex with Belloc in which he retraced the route across Sussex of Hilaire Belloc and the characters of Belloc's novel The Four Men: a Farrago. Bob Copper died in 2004, a few days after receiving an MBE.
The first two men out of limos are, in this order, a refined Paris-born salon owner from Chicago named Pascal, 69, and a fully uniformed retired Navy captain from Seattle named Kim, 69. Power opening.
Novels by Hilaire Belloc (1 P) Pages in category "Books by Hilaire Belloc" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.