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

I will be reading from the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation, but I have also heard great things about the translation by Anthony Briggs. War and Peace especially is a transformation and revelation. 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. Zhivago is not a novel in the usual sense. Just prepared a reading schedule for and, based on a brief conversation we had, suggestions for how to proceed with online discussion of Leo Tolstoy's War & Peace, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Pevear/Volokhonsky's War and Peace transformed the book, which I had read several times before in the Maude translation. This new version by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky — who most recently, in 2007, gave us their War and Peace— won't change that. I have read Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot, each translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. I am about 1000 or so pages into the recent, Pevear-Volokhonsky translation of War and Peace. Not that any translation really could. War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation) Leo Tolstoy Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. My edition teeters in at 1273 pages, but some editions go up to 1500 pages. For the first time, I understood Andre -- he'd seemed like such a prig before. Tolstoy, War & Peace (Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky's translation, Alfred A. See, here's the thing they don't tell you when they tell you that War and Peace is this great book that nobody reads: War and Peace is a great book that is entirely readable.