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I'm trying to find the best translation available on kindle as I live on an island with no bookshops or viable postal service. Any advice?
Sasha Pevear & Volokhonsky are reliable default translators for basically the entire Russian canon. Briggs' translation of W&P will also do you right, altho…morePevear & Volokhonsky are reliable default translators for basically the entire Russian canon. Briggs' translation of W&P will also do you right, although I like P&V just a tiny bit better. (Briggs has Denisov talk like Barbara Walters; it's distracting.)(less)
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War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
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