Graham Robb

Graham Robb has written biographies of Balzac, Victor Hugo and Rimbaud. His most recent book is The Discovery of France.

In the LRB Archive:

• Water me: Excentricité · 26 March 2009

  • Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in 19th-Century Paris by Miranda Gill

• Come Back, You Bastards!: Who cut the tow rope? · 5 July 2007

  • Medusa: The Shipwreck, the Scandal, the Masterpiece by Jonathan Miles

• Two Wheels Good: the history of the bicycle · 6 July 2006

  • Bicycle: The History by David Herlihy

• Diary: the Tour de France · 19 August 2004

• Walking through Walls: The world’s first anti-hero rogue cop · 18 March 2004

  • Memoirs of Vidocq: Master of Crime

• Slippery Prince: Napoleon III · 19 June 2003

  • Napoleon III and His Regime: An Extravaganza by David Baguley
  • The French Second Empire: An Anatomy of Political Power by Roger Price

• Like a Carp on a Lawn on Marie D’Agoult · 7 June 2001

  • The Life of Marie d'Agoult, Alias Daniel Stern by Phyllis Stock-Morton
  • Marie d’Agoult: The Rebel Countess by Richard Bolster

• Missing Mother on romanticism · 19 October 2000

  • Romanticism and Its Discontents by Anita Brookner

• I want, I shall have · 17 February 2000

  • La Grand Thérèse or The Greatest Swindle of the Century by Hilary Spurling

• Migne and Moody · 4 August 1994

  • God’s Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbé Migne by R. Howard Bloch

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