Robert Baldick
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Robert Baldick (1927–1972) was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, a French scholar, writer, editor of the Penguin Classics and a well-known translator.
He wrote eight books including biographies of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Frederick Le Maitre and Henry Murger and a history of the Siege of Paris. In addition he edited and translated The Goncourt Journals and a number of the classics of French literature including works by Gustave Flaubert, Chateaubriand, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jules Verne, and Henri Barbusse, as well as a number of novels by Georges Simenon.
[edit] Bibliography
- The Life of J K Huysmans.(Published originally by Oxford University Press I955. New edition revised by Brendan King, 2006)
- Dinner at Magny's (Published by Victor Gollancz (London) [1]
- The Life and Times of Frederick Lemaitre (Published by Hamish Hamilton)
- The Goncourts Published by Bowes and Bowes)
- The First Bohemian: The Life of Henry Muger (Published by Hamish Hamilton)
- The Siege of Paris (Published by Batsford)
- The Duel: A History of Duelling (Published by Chapman and Hall)
- The Memoirs of Chateaubriand (Edited, translated and published by Hamish Hamilton)
- Pages from the Goncourt Journal (Edited and translated by Oxford University Press.
- Memoirs (Chateaubriand - Translator from French to English)
- Pages from The Goncourt Journal (Translator from French to English)
- Sentimental Education (Flaubert - Translator from French to English)
- Against Nature (Huysmans - Translator from French to English)
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Biographical detail taken from a copy Dinner at Magny's, published by Gollancz in 1971