"They wouldn't get War and Peace," she says. "They're two different books." It was Walther who first said it was misleading to call the Bromfield translation the "original version," rather than a ...

Several of these privileged boors smugly announced that, of course, they had not read the book. So the War and Peace kick-off displayed British culture in miniature – the best and the worst.

and it makes War and Peace-niks terrible bores. But we can’t help it: we need to evangelise, spread the word that there is no book quite like it; no book that encompasses almost the whole of ...