375 pages
English language
Published June 20, 1960
The Kreutzer sonata
The devil, and other tales. Translation of Family happiness by J.D. Duff, and of the other stories by Aylmer Maude, with an introd. by Aylmer Maude The World's classics, 266
by Leo Tolstoy
4 stars
(1 review)
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.
