The Green Overcoat (Annotated)

The Green Overcoat is one of Hilaire Belloc's characteristic Edwardian comic fictions, a brisk satire in which an apparently ordinary article of clothing becomes the centre of confusion, social performance, and moral exposure. Written with Belloc's sharp aphoristic wit, the book belongs to the tradition of English comic prose that runs from Swiftian irony to Dickensian caricature, while also refle...