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| | 1. |  | War and Peace
from Knopf
Price: $24.42
Customer Review:
I have read that Richard Pevear does not know Russian, but merely edits his wife's translation. Okay.
Pevear calls WAR AND PEACE "daunting". It isn't. It's merely overwritten, wordy,redundant, repetitious, chronologically clumsy, and loaded with structural defects, writer's errors and... more info
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| | 2. |  | Empire of Ivory (Temeraire, Book 4)
from Del Rey
Price: $7.99
Customer Review:
The 4th installment in author Naomi Novik Temeraire series is an amazing read! The attention to detail and descriptions of this alternate reality, where dragons are real and as much a part of every day life as horses, is so enthralling it makes you think you are reading a historical novel instead of... more info
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| | 4. |  | War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $9.58
Customer Review:
The Maudes translated WAR AND PEACE in Tolstoy's house, consulting with him. They did a nice, thorough and very readable job. Meanwhile Tolstoy deliberately wrote in a simple, easy way to reach more readers. So while the Pevear translation may be slightly better (scholars have examined this work for... more info
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| | 5. |  | His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1)
from Del Rey
Price: $7.99
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The first book in the "Temeraire" series is a great start. I usually steer clear of dragon fiction, but came across a preview in a book magazine that depicted the scene in which the eponymous dragon is born, amongst a naval crew on a vessel during the Napoleonic war. It was a wonderfully touching... more info
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| | 7. |  | Hornblower : Beat to Quarters
from Back Bay Books
Price: $11.19
Customer Review:
Although Midshipman Hornblower describes the beginning of Horatio Hornblower's naval career, Beat to Quarters was the first Hornblower book that Forester wrote. As a result, it stands well on its own, and doesn't require any background provided by the other books in the series. It is also a much... more info
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| | 8. |  | Black Powder War (Temeraire, Book 3)
from Del Rey
Price: $7.99
Customer Review:
I mostly liked the first book in the series, it was a unique setting for a Fantasy novel, and had some very likeable characters. The second book didn't have many of the characters I liked as Lawrence and Temeraire were stuck on a slow boat to China for most of the book and they left the others... more info
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