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New translation of `War and Peace' only as long as it needs to be.(Book Review)

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From: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
Date: 20060215
Author:Wilson, Frank

Byline: Frank Wilson

"War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Anthony Briggs; (Viking, $40)

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To get a handle on Tolstoy's "War and Peace," it's important to read it at just the right tempo. The book is long _ 1,358 pages in Anthony Briggs' new and eminently fluent translation _ but also surprisingly economical: only as long as it needs to be. So this huge cavalcade of balls and battles is best taken at an amble. Go any faster and you're likely to miss what it's all about.

But how could you possibly overlook something as large-scale as Napoleon's ...

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