Thread: Legal US source for Robin Buss translation of The Count of Monte Cristo?
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Old 12-23-2011, 02:38 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Yours is the anonymous 1846 translation. Almost all English editions use this text. Penguin Classics commissioned the new translation in the 1990s.
Yes but I didn't notice any difference in content (only in the use words) from the Buss translation and my anonymous translation...

Naturally, I could learn French (in my next lifetime, maybe) and read the original
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