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cookerg t1_j5hzp0w wrote

Pride and Prejudice and a Tale of Two Cities are written in an English style which is 150-200 years out of date, so even native English speakers find them a little difficult. With War and Peace, since it is a Russian novel, why struggle through an English translation? Might as well get a Norwegian translation.

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Edentifiable t1_j5i03xk wrote

I got an English translation of War and Peace as a gift, so I want to do my best to read it. And I understand that they might be difficult to read by even native speakers, but they read them somehow right? I'm just trying to get to that somehow hahah

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cookerg t1_j5i89gg wrote

I haven't read Pride and Prejudice, so I just gave it a go, and got bored within about 5 minutes. It's so wordy! Good luck!

Dickens is a bit better.

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