On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Aadisht Khanna <[email protected]> wrote: > Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy - I took two years to finish this, but enjoyed > it far more in 2015 than 2014. Tolstoy has this under-the-surface mild > sarcasm that suddenly leaps out, bites, and then goes back to rest.
Do you recall which translation you read? I see 6+ different translations of Anna Karenina on Amazon with wildly varying reviews from readers. Besides the translations, another problem is that publishers put out edited/abridged versions of classics with cover material that doesn't mention this. I had a great time this year chomping through ~1500 pages of the original anonymous English translation of Count of Monte Cristo. But before I settled on that I had been misled by a "shortened" ~800 page edition, which definitely did not read well. Investigating this issue, I found other ~200 and ~400 page versions too! ~ash
