Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is a sprawling epic covering the impact of Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia on five different families. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, with an afterword by Orlando Figes, author of A People's Tragedy: Russian Revolution. Sep 27, 2007 - Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is a sprawling epic covering the impact of Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia on five different families. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs, with an afterword by Orlando Figes, author of A People's Tragedy: Russian.
War and Peace Leo. Author, Anthony Briggs, Translator, Orlando Figes, Afterword by Viking Books $40. Open Ebook - 1456 pages - 978-1-101-00383-1. I recently read the Anthony Briggs translation and it was very good although having not read any other translations I can't compare it to them. Tony Cuzzilla Just a question about the Maude translation of War and Peace as revised and edited by Mandelker (Oxford UP, 2010), which I am reading at the moment.
I haven't read War and Peace yet, but I did just finish the Pevear and Volokhnosky translation of Anna Karenina, and a month or so ago their translation of Crime and Punishment. I tried the Constance Garnett translations that have been around forever, but I found them dry and lacking voice. I certainly can't read Russian and compare them against each in the native language, however I found that the P & V translations flowed a lot better than other versions. Play Free Billiard Blitz 2 Game. I plan to read War and Peace and I will get the P & V translations, as I have with most other of their translations of other Russian books.
