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Old 09-02-2019, 12:23 PM   #666
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post
It's the Aylmer Maude translation which is in the public domain, so it's freely available elsewhere.

The Dunnigan translation of War and Peace from 1968 is supposed to be one of the best. It's not free, but it is available for $1.99 at Amazon US. War and Peace (Signet Classics)

Here's the section of the Wikipedia article talking about the different English translations available: Comparing translations

The Simon & Schuster edition is sometimes free and sometimes 99 cents.
(I went down a War and Peace rabbit hole a few months ago).
The maps in the Simon & Schuster edition might be better (based on the large difference in file size). I haven't read it yet, but the maps are reasonably good in the Simon & Schuster edition. FWIW, the Simon & Schuster edition has Xray enabled and the Signet edition does not.

The Simon & Schuster is sometimes free and sometimes 99 cents.
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