Books That Made Me

Translator extraordinaire Emily Wilson goes deep on everything from proto-YA novels to John Milton. Her latest book is Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea. Support us on Patreon!

Books That Made Emily Wilson:

• Dogsbody, Diana Wynne Jones
• The Aspern Papers, Henry James
• Paradise Lost, John Milton

Also discussed!

• Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin, Tranlsated by Vladimir Nabokov
• “Problems of Translation: Onegin in English,” Vladimir Nabokov
• “On Translating ‘Eugene Onegin,” Vladimir Nabokov
• Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
• Middlemarch, George Eliot
• The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
• Tolstoy: A Biography, A.N. Wilson
• Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat, Bee Wilson
• Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton, Emily R. Wilson
• Areopagitica and Other Writings, John Milton
• The Aeneid, translated by Scott McGill and Susannah Wright

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