The Goncourt Journals, 1851-1870 (Anchor 158)

xv, 377 pp. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Lewis Galantiere. The Goncourt Journal was a diary written in collaboration by the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt from 1850 up to Jules' death in 1870, and then by Edmond alone up to a few weeks before his own death in 1896. It forms an unrivalled and entirely candid chronicle of the literary and artistic Parisian world in which they lived.