Paperback, 160 pages
English language
Published Dec. 18, 2007 by Penguin (Non-Classics).
Paperback, 160 pages
English language
Published Dec. 18, 2007 by Penguin (Non-Classics).
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.