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Dumas translations

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Best translations of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo?

I'm looking for unabridged
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google it fag
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>translations
shut the fuck up you absolute shit sucking pleb. french is not that hard to learn.
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>>9351594

I did and got like, one or two yahoo answers threads. Besides, I trust /lit/'s opinion more
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Most major classics publishers will have good translators

I haven't read any Dumas in english but I always read penguin classics for anything in russian or german
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If you can't understand French, you probably can't understand Dumas.
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>>9351625
penguin suck dick. you yourself admit you have a tenuous grasp of the english language so I will inform you penguin translations suck donkey dick
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>>9351678
>professor spends years reading literature of a specific language, trying to learn the culture and its specifities
>eventually understands a book to the point he feels he can translate it, spends hours upon hours of work trying to properly translate even the smallest passages
>proceeds to be insulted by a random undergraduate on a congolese weaving forum
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You want the translation by Robin Buss.
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>>9351590

Penguin classics's Count of Monte Cristo is amazing
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Everyman's library editions are good translations. Look it up.
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