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

After reading their 2007 translation of War and Peace, Orlando Figes, the eminent Russian historian, did not mince words about Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. I think it was published in a book of several short Tolstoy novels. War and Peace (Война и мир). Cunningham's introduction was written before all of thehullabaloo over the Pevear and Volokhonsky translations of War and Peace. A battlefield that starts out crisply beautiful, a golden autumn scene, and gradually transforms into a muddy hell. I chose the Pevear/Volokhonsky by the way. We're using the Pevear-Volokhonsky translation, but feel free to take up any of the available translations. Yes, I've been looking for Hadji Murad too, the version translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky. I read the Pevear/Volokhonsky translation, and I was absolutely blown away. The War and Peace Reading Support Group begins on Monday, but we will start reading the Tolstoy this weekend. There are essentially twelve English translations (or versions) of War and Peace to date, (if you count Bromfield's so-called "Disney Version" and Komroff's radical abridgement of the Garnett translation -- see my notes below.) As I have already alluded to, abridgements of the work are on the market and I cannot generally ..