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tompe · 09-22-2008, 04:13 PM

So which translation is this based on? I started to reading it and the I happened to have Wordsworth Classics version and compared the text and there is a lot of difference. For example chapter 7 is "The interior of 'The Musketeers'" in this version and "The Domestic Manners of the Musketeers" in Wordsworth's version. The first paragraph in Wordsworth's version says "...and Porthos and Aramis to hire a lackey" and this version says "...Porthos to engage a lackey, and Aramis to provide himself with a suitable mistress".

So why these rather big differences?

09-22-2008, 04:13 PM	#3
tompe Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,452 Karma: 7185064 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Linköpng, Sweden Device: Kindle Voyage, Nexus 5, Kindle PW	So which translation is this based on? I started to reading it and the I happened to have Wordsworth Classics version and compared the text and there is a lot of difference. For example chapter 7 is "The interior of 'The Musketeers'" in this version and "The Domestic Manners of the Musketeers" in Wordsworth's version. The first paragraph in Wordsworth's version says "...and Porthos and Aramis to hire a lackey" and this version says "...Porthos to engage a lackey, and Aramis to provide himself with a suitable mistress". So why these rather big differences?