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Rob625: Posts: 12; Joined: 14 Feb 2016, 16:56; Bookshelf Size: 0

War and peace translation

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Post by Rob625 » 11 May 2020, 13:13

Hi, I'm new to Tolstoy and classic literature in general. What the best translation for me and the easiest?
I own maude and Garnett but heard Briggs is good?

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Post by Bigwig1973 » 11 Aug 2020, 19:07

While I was working on a paper on Dostoevsky, one of the professors recommended a different translation. The couple he recommended did, according to google anyways, also translate War and Peace. Their names are Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. I enjoyed their translation of Crime and Punishment.

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