The translation received a good welcome, including by a young Hemingway, who recalls telling a friend that he could never get through War and Peace-not “until I got the Constance Garnett translation.” Garnett published her translation in 1904, working on it while Tolstoy was still alive, and she once travelled to Russia to meet Tolstoy at home. She hired a secretary who would read the Russian text to her aloud, and she would dictate back the English translation. But she also had the hurdle of losing her eyesight while working on War and Peace. Garnett was largely a self-taught translator and lacked a lot of the dictionaries and resources that would have made translation easier.
I don’t think it’s necessarily the translation you should read – it’s neither easy-to-read nor precise – but it does have an interesting backstory. Garnett’s translation of War and Peace is in the public domain ( ), or via Dover Thrift as a paperback. Production notes: This ebook of War and Peace was published by Global Grey in 2018.Constance Garnett translation (Dover Thrift Editions) This book has 1,787 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1869 this is a translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude. Part of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Great Books of the Western World set. The story centers broadly on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves behind his family to fight in the war against Napoleon and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman, who intrigues both men. It is regarded as a central work of world literature and one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements.
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