Hilaire Belloc

The Emerald of Catherine the Great

Political adventure involving a valuable historic emerald

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Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc

Belloc was a prolific polemicist, historian, and novelist whose comic social fiction contains some of the most wickedly entertaining writing of the Edwardian era. Mr Clutterbuck's Election and Pongo and the Bull are devastating satires.

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