NPR reports on the two very different translations of Tolstoy’s War and Peace that have just been released. One is the faithful Richard Pevear-Larissa Volokhonsky translation, which keeps the plentiful French in its original form (translated in footnotes); the other is Andrew Bromfield’s 400-page shorter translation of Tolstoy’s first completed draft (with a different ending!). I loved P&V’s translation of Dostoevsky’s Demons , and only have interest in Tolstoy’s final draft at the moment, so I know which one I’ll be picking up.