J. Lewis May fu un critico e traduttore britannico, noto soprattutto come traduttore e biografo di Anatole France. La sua traduzione di Madame Bovary del 1928 fu per molti anni l'edizione di riferimento. Oltre a tradurre The Crisis of the European Mind, May ne tradusse anche il seguito, European Thought in the Eighteenth Century. Il suo lavoro si distingue per la cura e una profonda comprensione delle opere letterarie che ha affrontato, arricchendo il panorama letterario anglofono.
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