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Originally Posted by BenG
There is a new translation available by Lawrence Ellsworth who did the translation of The Red Sphinx a couple of years ago.
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Originally Posted by CRussel
The Hobson translation, which is based on the Pevear, is another modern translation, and more reasonably priced than the only copy of the Pevear that I found. I might well go with the Hobson. At £1.99 it's not expensive, and appears to avoid the Bowdlerization of the Robson and and Barrow ones. There's also an Ellsworth translation, but it's too expensive to justify, given that the Hobson one is cheap and the Victorian ones free. |
I just ran across a blog post by Ellsworth from three years ago which praised the Hobson translation! Did he have second thoughts, "Hmm, I can do better than that!"?
