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Originally Posted by kandwo
A book I just could not read is War and Peace. I don't read French and I'm not a fan of footnotes nor snobbish aristocracy unable to speak their mother tongue. If I ever find a version where all the french parts are translated within the text itself (maybe in italics or something), I will definitely give it a go.
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Ah, but French replaced Latin as a universal language and all of the Noble Russians did speak it. Then later English replaced French.
I find the French-English on my Kobo a big help with the 18th & 19th British writers. I've not attempted War and Peace yet, but some older PD translation of it is in my Calibre library from Project Gutenberg. Along with other big old ones like Clarissa.
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Originally Posted by kandwo
Another genre I distrust, as well as all the self-proclaimed lovers of it, is modern poetry that doesn't rhyme.
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I think the problem is more than lack of rhyme.
