What I’m reading now

• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (1844)

  • I’m reading the Standard Ebooks edition of the 1894 Crowell edition, itself a revision of the anonymous 1846 translation published by Chapman and Hall.

    The Count of Monte Cristo is an interesting case among translated literature: a single translation has been the standard English-language version since it was first published⁠—unheard of if you’ve ever tried to sift through the innumerable translations of Russian literature. New editions of The Count had been limited to revisions and abridgements of the anonymous Chapman and Hall translation and not until 1996 was a from-scratch translation available with Buss’ translation for Penguin.

• Mourning a Breast by Xi Xi (1992), translated from Chinese by Jennifer Feeley (2024)

• The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus (1942), translated by Justin O’Brien (1955)

For book. club

• Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson (2023)

Last updated 13 March 2025

Ebook projects

These are the ebooks that I have worked on⁠—primarily for Standard Ebooks but also a few transcriptions at Wikisource.

Published

• Scarlet Sister Mary (1928) by Julia Peterkin: Pulitzer winner in 1929

• The Mother (1934) by Pearl S. Buck: by Nobel Laureate Pearl Buck and written contemporaneously with her Pulitzer winner The Good Earth

• Quicksand (1928) by Nella Larsen

• Dodsworth (1929) by Sinclair Lewis

• The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1929) by Gandhi, translated by Mahadev Desai

• Look Homeward, Angel (1929) by Thomas Wolfe

• Savrola (1900) by Winston Churchill

• A Woman of No Importance (1893) by Oscar Wilde

In progress

• The Fisher Maiden (Fiskerjenten) (1868) by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, translated by Rasmus B. Anderson (1882)

  • I also did the transcription at Wikisource

• The Life of Jesus (1835) by David Friedrich Strauss, translated by George Eliot (1846)