Robert Baldick

Robert Baldick was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, and of the Royal Society of Literature. He wrote a number of histories and biographies, and translated the works of a wide range of French authors. He was a joint editor of Penguin Classics and one of Britain's leading French scholars until his death in 1972.

Pages From The Goncourt Journals By Edmond and Jules de Goncourt Foreword by Geoff Dyer Edited by Robert Baldick No evocation of Parisian life in the second half of the nineteenth century can match that found in the journals of the brothers Goncourt. Category: Biography and Memoirs Publisher: NYRB Classics

Pedigree By Georges Simenon Translated by Robert Baldick Introduction by Luc Sante Pedigree is the story of a boy growing into a young man and making his way in a city of gaslights, trams, rain, squalor, and secret delight. Category: Fiction Publisher: NYRB Classics