The Goncourt Brothers
Billy, Andre
£6.00
The Goncourt Brothers
By Andre Billy
Published by Andre Deutsch, London, 1960. 1st. Hardback with dustjacket over peach boards. Approx 22cm H x 15cm W. 352pp; Index.
Book condition: Very Good. Free endpapers age tanned, though inside all is clean, bright and tight. All pages present, no tears. Dust jacket condition - Good. Some discolouration and marking commensurate with age; Rubbed, light chipping, with some small tears. Not price clipped.
'Jules and Edmond de Goncourt were the most remarkable pair of collaborators in the history of literature. Their passion for literary gossip, often malicious, has left us revealing and entertaining portraits of their large circle of acquaintances, which included such giants as Flaubert, Zola, Turgenieff, Sainte-Beauve, Daudet - everyone in fact, who figured in that amazing age. Monsieur Billy's account of this circle and the brothers' unique devotion to each other and to the arts makes a strangely moving story: a fascinating, full scale study of a period and the two extraordinary men who appointed themselves its chroniclers.'