Robert Baldick

Robert Baldick (1927–1972) was a British French scholar, writer, editor of the Penguin Classics series 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 J K Huysmans".(Published originally by Oxford University Press I955. New edition revised by Brendan King, Dedalus Books 2006)
* "Dinner at Magny's" (Published by Victor Gollancz (London) [ Biographical detail taken from a copy "Dinner at Magny's", published by Gollancz in 1971 ]
* "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)

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