Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

This critical edition of Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve’s notebook from 1847 to 1868 provides readers with a unique window onto the mind of the writer, ranging from anecdotes and sketches to his personal thoughts on the works he read. This literary chronicle also brings to life the literary, political, and journalistic worlds of nineteenth-century Paris. This edition also includes over 100 unpublished pages that Sainte-Beuve had intended to insert into the notebook, as well as pages from the l ...