Reddit reviews War and Peace (Vintage Classics)
We found 15 Reddit comments about War and Peace (Vintage Classics). Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
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Reddit reviews War and Peace (Vintage Classics)We found 15 Reddit comments about War and Peace (Vintage Classics). Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
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https://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Vintage-Classics-Tolstoy/dp/1400079985
Enjoying War and Peace (and any Russian classics) for me is all about the translation. Do yourself a favor and try again with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's translation. It's like reading a completely different book, I couldn't put it down. [Amazon link] ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1400079985/ref=aw_d_dsc_books).
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Which one? The [official Prima one] (http://www.amazon.com/Fallout-New-Vegas-Collectors-Guide/dp/0307469956) is 480 pages, whereas [War and Peace] (http://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Vintage-Classics-Tolstoy/dp/1400079985) is 1,296 pages long.
Edit: I'm a dumbass and I missed the first sentence. Thanks trogdor.
This is the specific translation, if you're interested in reading it. Reading the portion the musical is based on (Volume 2, part 5) really increased my appreciation of the music and lyrics!
You can view my in depth analysis of this April Fools joke here. It outlines my theory that 13/13/14 is a prophecy that TWOW will come out January 13th 2015 (13/13/14).
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I was talking about the entire thing, with tie-ins and everything. Yes, it's hyperbole, but Civil War seriously had an insane amount of tie-ins.
That's 3,168 pages right there. War and Peace is 1,296.
Also perhaps one or two children's classics in there for extra-creepy. "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" is great because if the insanity in it. BONUS: I believe it is public-domain now. Check Project Guttenberg.
Sorry - link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400079985/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_0.NWAbP9T4P4Z
Or for UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0099512246/ref=pd_aw_sim_sbs_14_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=A4PMVPPZWZG2J4CSPEVW&dpPl=1&dpID=51m2Ttt2jXL#
I would highly recommend the translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. They did a great job translating the intricacy and narrative techniques of the original text. I stopped and started with a few different translations, but when I picked that one up I couldn’t put it down.
War and Peace (Vintage Classics) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400079985/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_SoYXCbW1HGD4P
I would say it is very much worth reading. I have yet to read it, but have recently purchased the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation and am very excited to start. There will no doubt be several people in this thread telling you to get this translation; it is very new (2007), award-winning, and comes from translators who've in recent years become very trusted in their translations of many 19th century Russian works.
If you decide it's worth it, this interview with the husband-wife translators is probably worth reading, if only to help you to decide on which translation you feel is best.
Last summer I bought and read their translation of The Brothers Karamazov (by Fyodor Dostoevsky) and was amazed by its beauty, despite its immensity (796 pages). Aside from War and Peace and Karamazov I have purchased their translation of The Death of Ivan Illych and Other Stories as well as Anna Karenina (both also by Tolstoy) and Stories of Anton Chekhov. It's safe to say that I trust these translators very much in their abilities.
If you decide you want to tackle the beast, the best thing to do would be to go to a bookstore and compare a few paragraphs and see which you prefer. These translators pride themselves on keeping the text as close to what the author intended as possible, as well as not modernizing the text; they purposefully only use words that were available in the 19th century. If that's something you don't find pleasing, then perhaps their version isn't right for you.
EDIT: As blueboybob pointed out, there is a good possibility of losing track of characters. Most (all?) versions of the book have a list of important characters, along with blurbs about their importance to the novel. However, concerning Karamazov, I found that sometimes these little blurbs give away a little more about their involvement in the story than I was comfortable with before reading it.
War and Peace. I have yet to finish it.
You could always try the biggie, War and Peace. It was historical fiction back when it was published.
If you liked the setting of South Africa from W Smith, you might like The Power of One - it is a coming of age story set in South Africa between the world wars.
Also, The Potato Factory trilogy seems like something you would enjoy
War and Peace, seriously.