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War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation) by Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation) Leo Tolstoy ebook
ISBN: 9781400079988
Format: pdf
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Page: 1296

I'd remembered reading an article in The New Yorker on Constance Garnett and “Translation Wars.” I remember that the article led me to purchase the Rosemary Edmonds' translation of War and Peace. I am no expert on the subject of course, but would like to perhaps read War and Peace again at christmas time. Vintage Classic, New York, 2008. After reading their 2007 translation of War and Peace, Orlando Figes, the eminent Russian historian, did not mince words about Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Cunningham's introduction was written before all of thehullabaloo over the Pevear and Volokhonsky translations of War and Peace. All these editions of War and Peace are really starting to pile up on my shelves. I think it was published in a book of several short Tolstoy novels. War and Peace Update #1 · War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace in helmet Here is the traditional Frisbee summer picture of a book in a bicycle helmet. Yes, I've been looking for Hadji Murad too, the version translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky. I chose the Pevear/Volokhonsky by the way. War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation) Leo Tolstoy Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. This enormous, 4-pound, 1,273-page Vintage Classics edition of War and Peace tipped the helmet. Translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. There are essentially twelve English translations (or versions) of War and Peace to date, (if you count Bromfield's so-called "Disney Version" and Komroff's radical abridgement of the Garnett translation -- see my notes below.) As I have already alluded to, abridgements of the work are on the market and I cannot generally .. Has anyone read the My favorite War & Peace translation is the one by Pevear & Volokhonsky. I've since read the Pevear/Volokhonsky translations of Anna Karenina and War and Peace, and have their translation of The Brothers Karamazov sitting on my to-be-read shelf.