Matilda, who Told Lies, and was Burned to Death

Matilda, who Told Lies, and was Burned to Death

Hilaire Belloc
Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover with 24 pages. - Colorful, humorous illustrations by Posy Simmonds. - Story takes place in London high society. Matilda has a habit of lying. One day she was bored and telephoned the London Noble Fire Brigade saying that her huge house was burning down. The Fire Brigade arrived only to find there was no fire. A few weeks later her Aunt was off to the theatre and a fire did break out. She screamed but no one believed her. And we all know the ending!

BOOKS BY Hilaire Belloc

Essays of a Catholic
How the Reformation Happened
The Servile State
Characters of the Reformation
Richelieu: A Study Hilaire Belloc
The Modern Traveller
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
Avril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance
Matilda Who Told Such Dreadful Lies
Marie Antoinette
The Stane Street: A Monograph
The Great and Enduring Heresy of Mohammed
The Free Press
Joan of Arc
A general sketch of the European War
Cautionary Verses
Cautionary Tales & Bad Child's Book of Beasts Hilaire Belloc
Economics for Helen
Cautionary Tales for Children
The Crusade: The World's Debate
Hills and the Sea
Complete Verse: Including Sonnets and Verse, Cautionary Verses, The Modern Traveller, Etc
An Essay on the Restoration of Property
Great Heresies
Survivals and New Arrivals : Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church
First and Last
The Four Men: A Farrago
Cautionary Verses: The Collected Humorous Poems of H. Belloc
Emmanuel Burden, Merchant of Thames St. , in the City of London, Exporter of Hardware: A Record of His Lineage, Speculations, Last Days and Death
At the Sign of the Lion: And Other Essays

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