The Four Men: A Farrago by Hilaire Belloc 1912 Novel of a Sussex, England Walkabout Travel

Title: The Four Men: A Farrago

Author: Hillaire Belloc

Description: Book has light bumping to head and tail of spine. One small mark and minimal fading to spine. A few scuffs to rear board. A couple light indents at rear fore edge. Name stamped on front paste-down and again across page 151. No other marks. Binding is sound. Copyright date 1912. Olive green cloth with debossed geometric design and gilt title on front and spine. 5.25 x 7.5 inches. 310 pages.

Four wanderers, finding themselves on the edge of their home country, resolve to tramp through its beloved borders. As they tramp they talk, make verses, sing lusty songs, laugh at politics, tenderly recall first loves. They ask of life those ddp questions that are never answered; they muse on death.

The novel describes a 90-mile long journey on foot across the English county of Sussex, traveling from Robertsbridge to Harting in the autumn of 1902. The four characters, Myself, Grizzlebeard, the Poet and the Sailor, make this journey which is a part-real and part-fictional allegory of life.

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket Condition: None

Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.

Place: Indianapolis, IN

Year: 1912

ISBN: n/a

Language: English

Size: 5.25 x 7.5 inches.

Pages: 310 pages.

Keywords: Sussex, travel, novel, allegorical,