Fall Arts Books
’ War And Peace, ’ Leo Tolstoy, October : The coincidence of two new translations was more than we could ignore. Andrew Bromfield has translated—for the first time in English—the original 1866 version of Tolstoy’s novel, which the author later rewrote at least twice. The celebrated husband-and-wife team of Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have translated the 1868 edition, a much longer, more complex version in which Tolstoy inserted all manner of philosophical and historical digressions and radically reworked important characters and plotlines....