This is terrible news about Garnett, I always found her very readable and never suspected she was cheating me.  Hapgood's Epic Songs of Russia used to be a great favourite of mine, but it was clear even to me that she must be making very free with the originals.  Thanks very much for the recommended names.  I've read Crime and Punishment in both Magarshack's and McDuff's translations, and hugely enjoyed both, but what I could find of Magarshack's other work read a little creaky to me.We're forgetting the greatest of all Sir Walter's heirs: Robert Louis Stevenson.  I love every word.Wuthering Heights, eh?  I could easily have named that as my favourite as well.  I now have to withdraw my patronizing remarks about your ability to read Lallans – if you can tackle Joseph's Yorkshire dialect then nothing in the Waverley novels is going to give you much trouble.  I find it a bit knotty myself, even though I'm a northerner and spent 20 years only a few miles from Haworth.  I used to know the Bronte moors like the back of my hand.  Ah, où sont les neiges d'antan, as they say in Yorkshire.