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Title: Inaccurate and Dated Translation
Review: The problem with Garnett is not her readability. She wrote a remarkably fluent English prose. The problem is her mistranslations and cavalier treatment of what Tolstoy actually wrote and meant. My Russian literature teacher at Hunter College (Tolstoy's grandaughter !) said there were bloopers on almost every page. And she regularly paraphrased, turned two sentences into one and generally "improved" Tolstoy whenever she felt like it.The Maude or Dunnigan translations are much more respectable.
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