The Path to Rome (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- First Published: 1902
- Type of Work: Travel sketches
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing
- Subjects: France or French people, Catholics or Catholic Church, Italy or Italians, Switzerland or Swiss people, Alps, Rome, Mountains
Critical Evaluation:
Hilaire Belloc—poet, novelist, essayist, biographer, historian, polemicist and propagandist—was a writer so prolific and versatile that it is almost impossible to designate any one of his works as best or even representative; but THE PATH TO ROME is in many ways as typical as any in revealing his intellectual attitudes, the nature of his faith, his outlook on the world, and the qualities of his style.
The book is an account of a walking tour that Belloc made one summer from Toul, in eastern France, across the Alps in Switzerland, and down...
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