Thread: Legal US source for Robin Buss translation of The Count of Monte Cristo?
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Old 12-29-2011, 07:42 PM   #22
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The two quotes are from post #9. I'm pretty sure the first paragraph is from the new translation; it seems to have simplified the language considerably. I rather enjoyed the second, presumably older, paragraph, as the language was much more vivid.
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