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There is a longstanding argument in the Tolstoy community over the Pevear & Volokhonsky translation of War and Peace that was published in 2007. It got a lot of attention at the time due to Oprah Winfrey featuring it. Richard Pevear and his wife Larissa Volokhonsky have done quite a few Russian translations.
I got the original printing (beautiful deckled edge binding) the day it came out. I threw my back out 2 days later and spent almost an entire week with it in my recliner nonstop.
I much prefer it to the Briggs (2005) translation, but you can find quite a few folks fighting over it online.
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