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

So, upon learning from a newspaper article that the publication of a Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of Tolstoy's War and Peace is imminent, it struck me that now would be a good moment for me to tackle that classic tome. Translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, translated by R. Tolstoy wrote French for some of the passages for War and Peace. War and Peace Update #1 · War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. And thus, she kindly answered our probing, exploitative questions. All these editions of War and Peace are really starting to pile up on my shelves. When Pevear and Volokhonsky translated it, they kept the French with the English translation as a footnote. Translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). With an occasional break, it took me five months to finish the 800 pages of “Anna Karenina”, I probably should have expected not to enjoy “Anna Karenina” very much, because when I read “War and Peace”, I enjoyed the war and was often bored by the peace. What's the first thing(s) you read in the morning? Currently: War and Peace, the new Pevear/Volokhonsky translation. As Theophrastus notes (and quotes from), Orlando Figes reviewed the Pevear-Volokhonsky translation of War and Peace in November 2007. Crime and Punishment, translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky (Everyman's Library). Tolstoy, War & Peace (Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky's translation, Alfred A. There is no war in “Anna Karenina”, except in Anna's and Levin's souls. Vintage Classic, New York, 2008.