War And Peace
April 1, 2008 Collectible No CommentsLeo Tolstoy-War And Peace-1938 2Vol Set Slipcased
Illustrated by VASSILY VERESTCHAGIN & FRITZ EICHENBERG
Complete 2 Volume Set Illustrated Throughout and Slipcased
Published by the Heritage Press 1938
The Translation From The Russian by Louise & Aylmer Maude
Revised by Mr. & Mrs. Maude
With A Special Introduction by Them;
Illustrated With Reproductions Of The Famous Nineteenth Century Painting by Vassily Verestchagin,
And Numerous Pen Drawings Made For This Edition by Fritz Eichenberg
Notes from the publisher as is exactly stated/please read carefully:
About The Text: The text of this translation,as it is printed in these volumes, is available in no other edition except the six volume edition distributed in 1938 to the members of the Limited Editions Club. It was for the members of that Club,that Louise and Aylmer Maude made this extensive revision of their earlier translation, and Mr. Maude corrected the proofs carefully, just before his death in 1938.
Mr. and Mrs. Maude devoted a fruitful lifetime to the translation of Tolstoy’s works:beginning in 1890, when they had been married for six years and went to stay with Tolstoy on his estate. It is unfortunate for us that they did not translate the works of other Russians, for so many of the great Russian books are available to us in painfully pedestrian translations. But it is fortunate for us that they translated War and Peace.
When they translated this monumental work,they were thoroughly familiar with the Russian language:unlike other translators,who worked from a sometimes inaccurate French Text. Tolstoy repeatedly expressed emphatic commendation of the Maude translation. And Bernard Shaw once remarked that Maude was to Tolstoy what William Archer had been to Ibsen or Ashton Ellis to Richard Wagner.
The Maude Translation of War and Peace was first published by the Oxford University Press in England,and it appears in Oxford’s World’s Classics edition,and also in Simon & Schuster’s edition of 1942.The extensive revision which is now reprinted here was made,as we have said, in 1938,on commission from The Limited Editions Club.
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