War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation) pdf

War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation) Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Pevear and Volokhonsky include all the French, with pages of footnotes. War and Peace Update #1 · War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. The list would have been a little more helpful if they had included the publisher The Pevear and Volokhonsky translations of Tolstoy's works, they say, goes a long way in diminishing the intimidation factor of Leo Tolstoy. As one who gave up reading War and Peace twice but breezed through it the third time because it was the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation, I am delighted to hear that Turgenev is next in line! War-and-peace-maude Although Brigg's translation is excellent, I am most familiar with the Maude translation. The War and Peace Reading Support Group begins on Monday, but we will start reading the Tolstoy this weekend. Vintage Classic, New York, 2008. It's a little strange to see War and Peace at 50 and no Anna Karenina or Crime and Punishment in sight given they're generally the more popular translated texts. We're using the Pevear-Volokhonsky translation, but feel free to take up any of the available translations. 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.