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Geoffrey Wall

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Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs

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William Shakespeare, Gustave Flaubert, John Milton

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Geoffrey Wall is a literary biographer, a translator, a freelance travel-writer and an editor of The Cambridge Quarterly. His biography of Flaubert, published by Faber in 2001, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. It has subsequently been published in American, Spanish and French editions. Geoffrey Wall's translations of Flaubert, published by Penguin, include Madame Bovary (1992), Selected Letters (1995), The Dictionary of Received Ideas (1997), Sentimental Education (2004) and Three Tales (2005). He has edited a wide-ranging collection of Sartre's non-fiction, entitled Modern Times (Penguin 2001). His translation of Pierre Macherey's Theory of Literary Production was reissued as a Routledge...more

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Average rating: 3.80 · 5,378 ratings · 441 reviews · 18 distinct works

	Flaubert 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Tourism: Change, Impacts and Opportunities 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005	My rating:
	Flaubert: A Life by Geoffrey Wall, James Adams 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Outdoor Recreation In Canada 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Tourism: People, Places And Products 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Implications Of Climate Change For Pacific Northwest Forest Management: Symposium Summary; Prepared For Climate Change Digest, Atmospheric Environment Service 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Implications of Climatic Change for Tourism and Recreation in Ontario: Summary of Phase 1 and Phase 2 ... 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Tourism And Sustainable Development: Monitoring, Planning, Managing by Geoffrey Wall, J. Phillip Nelson 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert, Robert Baldick (Translator), Geoffrey Wall (Annotations) 3.85 avg rating — 3,304 ratings — published 1869 — 45 editions	My rating:
	Three Tales by Gustave Flaubert, Roger Whitehouse (Translator), Geoffrey Wall (Editor, Introduction ) 3.74 avg rating — 913 ratings — published 1877 — 111 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Geoffrey Wall

“Irony cleans away all those secret stains. Irony is the path that leads safely back to official realities.”
― Geoffrey Wall, Madame Bovary

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“Quality and consistency of conjecture are one good measure of the ambition and the inwardness of any literary biography. The biographer is master of the archive, but also and equally master of the subjunctive mood, of un-certainty, of non-factuality.”
― Geoffrey Wall

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