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

I think it was published in a book of several short Tolstoy novels. Yes, I've been looking for Hadji Murad too, the version translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky. Talk about getting your money's worth. [3] War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky, Knopf). (In my last post, I introduced the strange--strange, to me anyway--use of the phrase "clerical persons" in the Unction scene in Volume 1, Book 1 of War and Peace. War and Peace Update #1 · War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. There are two big issues with this translation, depending on where you're sitting. 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. From the Patriotic War against Napoléon to the era of nineteenth- century radicalism and reform, and then on to the October Revolution, the Communist terror, and the postwar period, the Pevear-Volokhonsky project now surveys a cultural expanse as broad as the Siberian frontier. War and Peace especially is a transformation and revelation. (1713-68) had a marked influence on the young Tolstoy, particularly with his Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy(1768), which stands behind Tolstoy's first piece of fiction, 'A History of Yesterday' (1851), and part of which Tolstoy translated. But, when it comes to Tolstoi I really, really like the translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (they did the War & Peace I'm working on). Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky's translation gives us new access to the spirit and order of the book. €�I came running to Larissa”—Larissa Volokhonsky, Pevear's wife of thirty years and collaborator on twenty-one works of Russian-to-English translation—“and said, 'Can that be? I have read Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot, each translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. James Wood reviews the new translation of War and Peace in The New Yorker. Vintage Classic, New York, 2008. As james wood puts it in his admiring new yorker review of richard pevear and larissa volokhonsky's translation of war and peace,.