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Originally Posted by issybird
It's not actually the same book, but at times I buy different translations of the same book. I've got a couple of Don Quixotes, a couple of Les Miserableses, and I think three War and Peaces. There are probably a few others.
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Translated works live or die by the quality of their translation. I have more than a few non-English books in my collection that started as a StandardEbooks/Gutenberg ebook based on a public domain translation, but then purchased the title when a "modern" translation from e.g. Vintage International went on sale.
Most recently, I've been slowly picking up Dostoevsky novels whenever the Richard Pevear/Larissa Volokhonsky translations go on sale. They do good work.