The Kreutzer sonata

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The Kreutzer sonata (1957, Random House)

119 pages

English language

Published Nov. 8, 1957 by Random House.

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On comparing with the original Russian some English translations of Count Tolstoi's works, published both in this country and in England, I concluded that they were far from being accurate. The majority of them were retranslations from the French, and I found that the respective transitions through which they had passed tended to obliterate many of the beauties of the Russian language and of the peculiar characteristics of Russian life.

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