#THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO BANTAM CLASSIC PDF FREE#
Then I read the old free translation and it was clear to me now: This translation left me puzzled regarding whether 'a dozen of his men' were captured by 'me', or they assisted me in capturing 'him'. Robin Buss translation:"he tried to arrest me, but I turned the tables on him and captured him myself with a dozen of his men." If I were you, I'd err on the side of Buss anytime. This edition includes an introduction, explanatory notes and suggestions for further reading." There are many more such testimonials as to the supremacy of the Penguin Classics translation. Buss's translation updated the language, making the text more accessible to modern readers, and restored content that was modified in the 1846 translation because of Victorian English social restrictions (for example, references to Eugénie's lesbian traits and behaviour) to reflect Dumas' original version." Also, according to Quora, "Robin Buss’s lively English translation is complete and unabridged, and remains faithful to the style of Dumas’s original. According to Wikipedia, "In 1996 Penguin Classics published a new translation by Robin Buss. Also, the Chapman and Hall translation is from 1846. Most reviews comment that his translation is the most lively, and reads as though the work had been originally written in English rather than French. Robin Buss seems to be the most popular and respected modern translator of this work.
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