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Originally Posted by Cactus Chef
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.
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I realized a long time ago that for me, money spent on a modern translation was money well spent. A bonus is annotations/footnotes and a good introduction although I'm not willing to spend money to get them in an English language public domain book. One needs to tread warily with introductions, however, so as not to be spoiled.