Robert Baldick

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Robert Baldick (1927–1972) was a British scholar of French literature, writer, joint editor of the Penguin Classics series with Betty Radice, and a well-known translator. He was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.

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.

Bibliography

  • The Life of Joris Karl Huysmans.(Published originally by Oxford University Press, 1955. New edition revised by Brendan King, Dedalus Books 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 Murger (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)
  • Hell (Barbusse - Translator from French to English)

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Biographical detail taken from a copy Dinner at Magny's, published by Gollancz in 1971
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