War and Peace (Pevear/Volokhonsky Translation) Leo Tolstoy
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

War and Peace published by Penguin Classics is translated by Anthony Briggs. What War and Peace is, I suppose, it the biggest and baddest attempt at experimental/historical fiction ever attempted. War and Peace Update #1 · War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Vintage Classic, New York, 2008. She sometimes gets knocked by uncharitable who think she's "too Victorian" to really get Tolstoy; however, if you compare the Volokhonsky/Pevear translation of Anna Karenina with my girl Connie's, you'll see that the V/K's owe her a pretty big debt. War and Peace especially is a transformation and revelation. Well, that was the first time I had really seriously looked into War and Peace at all, and as I poured over the four or five different versions of the novel on the shelf, I couldn't figure out which translation was the "best. Translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. I have read Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and The Idiot, each translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. It would seem that the only translation of War and Peace that an even mildly informed reader in 2013 would choose would be that by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.