War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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Book Summary Author: Leo Tolstoy Translator: Richard Pevear Translator: Larissa Volokhonsky Edition: Hardcover Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Format: Deckle Edge Published: 2007-10-16 ISBN: 0307266931 Number of pages: 1296 Publisher: Knopf |
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Book Reviews of the War and Peace
Customer Review: French Bits
Summary: 3 Stars
The decision to keep the french bits french with the english translations as footnotes is understandable but makes the book hard reading for those of us who can't read french. Reading the conversations feels like wading through treacle, with a constant need to go back and forth from text to footnotes.
It made for an awkward reading experience; it might have made more sense to have made the french text footnotes instead, with the associated english text identifiable through some change in font or colour.