History

[bertine]

Sunday afternoon I caught a show about the French Revolution while I was hanging out at my parents house. Ever since I have been reading up on it. I think I need to go to the library and get a couple books on it.

I love history.

Comments

[beg-jon13.livejournal.com]

Have you read War and Peace?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Yes. I was obsessed with the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars as a teenager. This time I want to read more factual stuff.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

Tale of Two Cities?

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Yes.
I even read the Scarlet Pimpernel.

[beg-jon13.livejournal.com]

I'm reading it again right now (like taking a break to type this). It's so damn good. I'm glad I finally have a chance to read an unabridged edition.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Is it a better translation? The one I read sometimes was stiled in a way that made you remember that it was written in Russian, not English.

[beg-jon13.livejournal.com]

It's the Rosemary Edmonds translation published by Penguin.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

That's the one I read too, and I thought it was great.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

Wait, that is the one I read. It was Anna Karenina that I didn't like the translation (I read them one after another for a class in high school so they get mixed up in my head).