Paperback, 184 pages
English language
Published March 6, 2007 by Classic Books Library.
Paperback, 184 pages
English language
Published March 6, 2007 by Classic Books Library.
On comparing with the original Russian some English translations of Count Tolstoi's works, published both in this country and in England, I concluded that they were far from being accurate. The majority of them were retranslations from the French, and I found that the respective transitions through which they had passed tended to obliterate many of the beauties of the Russian language and of the peculiar characteristics of Russian life.