Robert Baldick




Robert André Edouard Baldick, FRSL (9 November 1927 – April 1972),[1] 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, Frédérick Lemaître 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.


His son is English academic Chris Baldick.



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) [2]


  • 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)



See also



  • Translated Penguin Book - at Penguin First Editions reference site of early first edition Penguin Books.

  • Robert Baldock (disambiguation)



Footnotes





  1. ^ O'Driscoll, Kieran (2011), Retranslation Through the Centuries: Jules Verne in English, Oxford: Peter Lang, pp. 151–152.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


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










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