Robert Baldick

Robert André Edouard Baldick, FRSL (9 November 1927 – April 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, 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) 
 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)
 Nausea (Sartre - 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)
 Aphrodite (1972) from Aphrodite: mœurs antiques by Pierre Louÿs (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)

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