Graham Robb

Graham Robb has written biographies of Balzac, Rimbaud, and Victor Hugo. His latest book is The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World War. (March 2008)

From the Review

March 20, 2008: The Pens of the Musketeer

Georges by Alexandre Dumas, translated from the French by Tina A. Kover, edited with an introduction and notes by Werner Sollors, and with a foreword by Jamaica Kincaid

The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-Hermine in the Age of Napoleon by Alexandre Dumas, translated from the French by Lauren Yoder

June 28, 2007: In His Nightmare City

The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Misérables by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated from the Spanish by John King

February 15, 2007: Treasures of Vanity

Pages from the Goncourt Journals by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, edited, translated from the French, and with an introduction by Robert Baldick, and with a foreword by Geoff Dyer

October 19, 2006: Proust: The Race Against Death

Proust at the Majestic: The Last Days of the Author Whose Book Changed Paris by Richard Davenport-Hines

May 9, 2002: The Shock of the Old

Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle- Class Culture, 1815–1914 by Peter Gay