books we enjoyed recently: links from the bonus episode
how to find everything discussed there
In the latest episode of the invisible castle podcast, we discussed four books at length, and mentioned some others in passing, as well as an article. We promised that we’d put the details of all those on this site, so here they are, along with some links to places you can buy them:
East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
In., by Will McPhail
Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri
Kristi mentioned more than one translation of this. Three are listed here:
The first one, pictured below, is the 1867 verse translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It has illustrations by Gustave Doré, which Kristi says assist ones reading of it:
This second one is a very recent translation by Clive James, which Kristi says is super-accessible by virtue of being rendered into everyday contemporary language:
And this third one is the J.G. Nichols translation which Luke read. It has been published in three volumes (Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise—available here), the third of which was sitting on the table during the podcast. Nichols prefaces each canto of the poem with a short description of what is about to happen. His translation is also available in a single volume edition, which also features pictures from Gustave Doré:
Elizabeth Elliot: A Life, by Lucy Austen
Also mentioned…
We also mentioned, in passing:
Amy Peterson’s article on Elizabeth Elliot entitled ‘Van and Bets, and the things we sacrifice to be acceptable’.
Elliot’s biography of her husband, Jim, entitled Shadow of the Almighty.
Elliot’s novel, No Graven Image, appears to currently be out of print, but is widely available secondhand.
Seymour: An Introduction by J.D. Salinger.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
C. Stacey Woods and the Evangelical Rediscovery of the University by A. Donald MacLeod.
Uncanny: The Origins of Fear by Junji Ito.
Tokyo These Days, Volume One by Taiyo Matsumoto.
Confessions by Augustine of Hippo is available in Kristi’s preferred translation by R.S. Pine-Coffin, as well as in a newer one by Henry Chadwick.
You can find publisher or bookseller links for each of those by clicking on the relevant underlined words in the list above.
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